le pen lost out to macron in a bitter presidential contest in 2017.s immediately rejected by the government. let's have a listen to her translation: i see in this a victory of the people who have taken power back tonight with fierceness and dignity. we welcome these results with joy and the name of national rally has never been more fitting. whether you voted with heart or reason, be assured a vote for national rally is a vote for france and for the we said at the beginning of the programme that these elections would have a profound effect, not just on elections would have a profound effect, notjust on the eu but on the political landscape of all 28 voting countries. in greece, the governing party is projected to have done so badly that the prime minister has called an early election. we can see there syriza is on eight, up from zero. just a little too far away from me on the screen. but let's listen to the greek prime minister speaking earlier. translation: right after the second round of local government elections on 2june, i will immediately ask th

let's listen to miss marine le pen speaking earlier.your hearts or your reason, be assured that a vote for the national rally is a vote for france and for the people. so, as you might have seen as we've gone country by country across the 28 nations, some really quite interesting result. and we've looked at the big powerhouses of course, france, germany and the uk and the rise of the right, populist and nationalists in the uk and italy, let's try now to make sense of it all if we can to see the bigger picture, the bigger trends if there are any. earlier i spoke to our brussel correspondence russell fleming. what has happened in the european parliament tonight is the stranglehold, the big centre—left and centre—right political groups here have had on the business of the european parliament for decades and decades and decades have disappeared. it swing them, the ce ntre—left disappeared. it swing them, the centre—left in the centre right across europe do not have enough seats in the european parliament to control the agenda and to guarante

in it not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france in the u.k. in order for august 1st so it's 3 france england it's the sign of a europe that is changing green parties in several countries celebrated their best e.u. election results highlighting concern among some voters in the climate change after ending people all across europe want to form a peaceful europe together we haven't just got a great result in germany but as it stands in ireland and the netherlands in austria all across europe the greens are strong. the election results reflect a growing political trend in the east 28 member states people are increasingly rejecting establishment traditional mainstream parties and supporting alternatives and floating for courses the center right european peoples party remains the largest bloc in the e.u. parliament but with no majority it'll be forced to seek support to form a pro e.u. coalition there is no ability there recent no stable maturity without the e.p. and that's why the e.p.a. is ready for compromise ready for talks to each other but

just a little over an hour ago and projections there are suggesting a strong victory for marine le pen's far right party the national rally achieving just over 23 percent of the vote that's just ahead of president whole centrist party that won just under 22 percent 10 said the expected result quote confirms the new nationalist globalist division and france and beyond and their party is now calling for the formation of a powerful populist group in the european parliament. that you have some room on there and our correspondent lisa lewis has been tracking all of this for us she's at present bleak and marsh movement in the paris for us lisa what are some of the reactions you're seeing there to these initial results. well not said he was over the head if even a solstice that's the alliance that includes a man about calls and r.e.m. party so the president's party she was just speaking and saying that millions of people who voted for us this is showing that 2 years on from presidential from the presidential elections and office 6 months of social crisis due to a yellow best protests that our g

parties the marine le pen and salvini have been perhaps a little bit more comfortable at.encouraging voters from the extremes of their country's politics and farage is very careful not to do that so he can now portray his party as a potential replacement for the conservatives not saying that will happen but he's definitely trying to give that impression so he he takes great care to stay inside the political mainstream most of the time obviously immigration is a key issue a force of pain a most of the far right party and even far as yourself though has often used it for political purposes perhaps less since the referendum and the whole mess in the u.k. of not being able to leave but he did also use that tactic didn't he he did and famously in front of a post that was used very heavily during by his campaign during the breaks it campaign back in 2016 but it's worth remembering that in the u.k. immigration as in this year has fallen away since the referendum it was a bigot's you in the referendum that triggered the difficulties the u.k. political system is now having but actu

on the move party and marine le pen national rally.ine le pen has been at the heart of the campaign from the beginning. the french president is beefing up his role as well, appearing now on campaign posters. alone on campaign posters, one could think president macron is running for the european election. the french president isn't hoping for a seat in brussels. he wants seats for his party. as many as possible. >> you know the president has been involved in european issues for a long time. it's only natural for him to take part in this european campaign as presisident. months, president macron has published an op-ed in newspapers across europe. he's pushed for a stronger, more integrated europe. mean theased role may lady opposing him has done a poor job -- what matters are the figures. macron's party, republic on the move, is stagnating. for the first time, they are 's far righte le pen party. >> i will use all my energy to stop the national rally from winning. >> days away from the vote, macron is trying to reboot his campaign, hopin

is sort of born from the front desk and i love her father john marie le pen it was around for decades that she could potentially be one of the key figures to lead a far right alliance obviously we're still waiting for italy's vote so we can't really discuss in any detail until then about how likely do you think a far right alliance would be for example marine le pen who is quite secular with some of the other far right parties who are almost aggressively christian if you will yes it's likely that we will have a big group built their own to salvini here in the european parliament no. they are internally still quite divided mainly on the economics in mainly on the question of the eurozone were indeed the more northern members or not happy to support transfer say were us some of the like salvini has for example been praising the president of the european central bank and what are drug says so there's internal a difference. is the record important and secondly a majority a solid majority of any piece will still not be euro skeptics so they will simply try to continue with business of usua

now polls close are earlier in france one of the key member states and marie le pen has once again proved to be a thorn in the side of the country's main stream party's national rally achieve just over twenty three percent of the vote that's ahead of president manuel mcconnell centrist party that won just under twenty two percent that then said the expected result quote confirms the new nationalist globalist division in france and beyond her party is now calling for the formation of a powerful populist group in the european parliament now the penetrance her supporters earlier let's listen to what she had to say. if you want me to argue this is a victory for the people we have taken back power tonight with pride and dignity that also really joyfully welcome this result tonight because never before has the national rally so deserved his name good to go whether it's a vote from the head or the heart rest assured that vote for a national rally was above all a vote for france and the people. let's bring in our correspondent lisa lewis in paris she's been following my columns on march movement

i think that's theissue, right marine le pen.d it is in a sense, a combination of issues throughout europe and immigration, but also the economy is being rather little discussed, all these great plans about a refer to the microform and then basically, either you do something very big or almost nothing, so it is quite surprising. my back thank you for keeping me company, thanks to the both of you from italy, to france, the restrictions mean that while the restrictions mean that while the restrictions are going on, we cannot talk to you about them, but we will be in brussels on sunday night and on monday to bring you the results andi on monday to bring you the results and i will see you then. goodbye. hello there. it is still quite warm this week especially in the sunshine but next week it will be turning cooler and probably a bit more u nsettled cooler and probably a bit more unsettled as well. not a great deal of rain really, we got this claudia coming in from the atlantic, very slowly. a set of leather friends but are very slowl

so probably going to results show marie le pen set to come out on top. disappointment to president crying what effects do you expect from this result in france and then also the you as a whole. well for president. nothing to be honest with you and for what i heard the said that he will not change their policy so no matter what happened he is stuck in is you know is is a gender and i don't really see any any change on his hand he was involved in the selection of the president should not be involved in the actually represents. d. entire community the all the french citizens but he got involved in his selection east he bets that it will be marine le pen once again he lost so technically to what he should do the least he could do is to dissolve the assembly and house for a new election but i don't think he will do that so crossing to neighboring italy polls there are showing salvini in the lead can't be happy about that either. do you expect to work with them to work with solving his party in strasburg. yeah i mean there's always bridges to build with differ

marine le pen has the first party in france. nigel farage is the first party in britain.n of a europe that is changing, a europe tired of the powers of the elites, finance, multinationals, and from tomorrow we will have to redouble our efforts. we canjoin we can join nuala we canjoin nuala in rome, she's been monitoring this. for mr salvini, a very good result domesticly, let's start from that perspective. definitely. when it comes to these european parliament elections that you've been covering over the past day, what we're really seeing is when they have votes in parliament, it's really a reflection of national issues, nowhere more than italy and matteo salvini of la lega, or the league, he is in current issue with the five star movement, luigi di maio, the coalition there. it is uneasy, though, to be honest. he was looking for domesticly domesticly is to have a win that could potentially allow him to that alliance and to go it alone as la lega become the governing party. he had a press conference not long after the exit polls came out. elections didn't finish until 11p

in france, marine le pen beat emmanuel macron.ranslation: emmanuel macron has no choice but to dissolve the national assembly and make it a more democratic election that reflects the opinion of the country's people. as if we did not have enough political drama, the austrian government has collapsed after the chancellor and his government lost a vote of no confidence. when you have an election with 28 countries and an electorate of 415 million, and a range of different electoral systems, there was never going to be one story that came out of this, there was going to be many. across the next hour we will take you through all that most significant results and the ramifications of those results. let's start in the the uk. the brexit party didn't exist a couple of months ago. now it's come top of a national election. the liberal democrats and the green party also made significant gains. all three have very clear policies on brexit. here's the result. the brexit party over 30%, the liberal democrats threw 20%, the labour party only reac

let's talk a little about marine le pen. called the national front. she didn't manage to get all the way to the presidency. do you think we can now consider her a genuine presidential contender when that comes around in a few yea rs ? when that comes around in a few years? well, we have got to stop talking about her and her party as some sort of lions who deserve to be cut out of the debate and ignored. —— fly ins. she has an awful lot going against, one is that she has hardly any member is a parliament, and this situation in which the populist block has such a huge percentage of the vote in these elections and it has such a tiny representation in parliament is causing huge strain and i don't think it is sustainable. she was a contender two years ago, she got through to the last two. she will get through, as things stand, next time around. i'm not sure that the politics will have changed that much though next time round, which is why macron is still quite content with this result. if it was a rerun between him and her at a p

with 24.86 percent and at this time around it's likely to be less than that right but still marie le pen painting her party herself as the winner of this vote what about a man on my car and a marshal what are the reactions that you're seeing where you are tonight. well here people have been saying you know we're quite happy about the result obviously we came 2nd we would have liked to come 1st however this is our 1st european election as the l r e m heartsease and no sane credit crunch has a chance because 2 years ago again interest in the presidential elections they won although before time there had been 2 traditional economies dominating the party spectrum here that's essentially and that center right republicans now today's results if it is confirmed then confirmed that and r.e.m. or as it is the renaissance alliance. which includes l r e m is a stable party and that's not just a temporary temporary friend of mine really that's what they find on the underlining here really. responded lisa lewis for us there in paris covering the very latest thank you lisa. right now we're just gettin

she too wants to see a european revolution an awakening of the people marine le pen. france's right wing figure head. we don't want this european union anymore that has brought the bill winds of globalization upon europe. they want to form a european alliance of people and nations ideally with poland hungary and the u. k.. but within the european parliament the nationalist leaders are anything but unified how strong is europe's right wing. tiny which is making the case against the far right's my tests notice of some vt would make it. to a bottle of he has he sees it between the elites the european brussels elites on the one hand. and the ordinary working people of europe on the other and he would say that many of those ordinary working people. are being left behind at the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer do you have any sympathy for that case because that's where a lot of their i guess the fear of the aggression the heat is coming from. absolutely -- as a social democrat absolutely -- can can relate to the essence off the poor are getting poorer and

in france marine le pen's party out stages president while the far right the leader leads initially. nigel farage is bret's it party ahead in the u.k. the ruling conservatives routed after failing to. take britain out of the european union. and in other news iraq signal support for iran in its standoff with the us and they get in office to play mediator. and the cash shortage that's threatening un peacekeeping missions will look at who's not paying their share. of the proof europe centuries have long dominated the european parliament has suffered significant losses in this one of the most contentious elections in the history is not just the euro skeptics far right to gain at the expense in a vote that seen the biggest turnout across europe in 2 decades now the center right european peoples party and the socialists and democrats together they've got the most seats but they've not got enough for a majority even combined but they have 2 potential allies who have made gains of their own in the liberals they've been their numbers and so has the greens their become the 2nd largest force in

his closest ally is marine le pen. the head of france's far right political dynasty she led him to campaign with her firebrand father nationalism runs and hard blood but now she's gone her own way. the french fry be rough for a touch on the elites the e.u. and immigration in the past she called for france to leave the union but has since returned seeking instead the stripped back to be used power that's not good so you no longer want this european union that is spreading unbridled globalization on europe globalization without regulation means having slaves manufacture to sell to the unemployed so. helping to banish the shackles of brussels is your. of the alternative for germany leading up to born in the chaos of the financial crisis but who found success talking about migration equal marriage and islamic extremism unlike the others they have threatened a day get a german exit from the e.u. if the block fails to change it. and we want to avoid damage we'll need to change out the rection otherwise brags it won't be the

russian president cultivate his relations with the heads of europe's far right groups like marine le pen of the national rally. you know so i know that you represent quite a fast growing element of european political forces. it's a very profitable contact the pen's party has taken out a total of 11000000 euros in loans from banks close to the kremlin as funding for recent presidential election campaigns and she maintains very high level contacts with moscow such as to any expert secretary of state for transport he has switched to the national rally and supports russia's annexation of crimea. region i've been there more than 10 times so nobody can seriously doubt that the people there would rather live under russian control. thought it was now he's running for the e.u. parliament and takes a clear stance on russia. continuing the policy of sanctions punishes europe and our own farmers as much as russia but suicide. observers say russia seeks to expand its influence in europe by supporting right wing populist leaders as well as their extremist voter base. into the state the idea is to fan

le pen called at this resolution of the parliament.ven if that doesn't happen, it will make it hard for macron to carry on in france. to bring up other issues, such as immigration, and take concrete steps to fight climate change. 13%, this is the other big surprise in france of these eu elections and in europe. it will make it harder for emmanuel macron to push for further eurozone integration. annmarie.'s get to brexit front and center and the brexit party literally victorious for nigel farage. when he to work out whether it's a protest vote or something more substantial. annmarie: i think that's a good point. part of it is a protest vote. look or the conservatives ended up last. 9% of the vote, one of their worst in history. a lot of that is the brexit party taking conservative vote. the two parties that did well, the nigel for rods party and -- nigel farage party and the green party. we want to stay close to the european union, maybe a second referendum. those parties to go. this whole collection is a massive reminder to the people

yeah i think if you want to put some perspective on this it was indeed a victory for marine le pen's a far right party but a very small one and it was a defeat for the party of the french president tomorrow my car but a very small one it was that was only there was less than a percentage point in it now for marine le pen she ended up with a result which was very similar to the result the party had in the last election in 2014 and i think what that really shows is that even though the far right in france has a very core a supporter base and they are able to widen their appeal and many people expected marine le pen to capitalize on the fact that the french presence amount or mark or has had such a challenging few months but in fact her party failed to do so now for him and all my cars i said he has had the yellow vest crisis over social inequality his popularity his promises over the past few months because many people say that he is a favoring the rich over the poor yet even with all of that speed high and him his party still managed to do very well a small faction a small percentage

in france marine le pen's party out stages president mccrone while the far right leg leads in italy. now you for august bret's at passy ahead in the u.k. the ruling conservatives routed after failing to take britain out of the european union. and japan's charm offensive ahead of a tricky trade talks donald trump becomes the 1st foreign leader to meet the new and. pranav hito plus. i'm a blessing in penny album reporting on this country's efforts to get that precious stone artifacts taken in the colonial era. though early results show the pro europe centrists of long dominated the european parliament have suffered significant losses in one of the most contentious elections in history but it's not just the euro skeptics far right you've gained at their expense in a vote that seen the biggest turnout in 2 decades the center right european people's party and the socialists and democrats together they have the most seats but it's not enough for a majority but they do have 2 potential allies is made their own gains the liberals have based business did their numbers and so have the greens t

. >> not onlnly the first party in italy, but marine le pen is the first t party in france. thehe u.k., nigel farage is first. italy, france, england, it is a sign of a europe that is changing. amy: we will go to greece, britain, and germany for response. then we look at the student debt crisisis in the united states where the average student debt is now $32,000. earlier this month, the billionaire investor robert smith stunned many when he offered to pay off the student loans of the graduation class at morehoususe college. >> o of the eieight generaratiof my famamily who have b been in s country, w we're going to puputa .ittle fuel l in your bus i have the amni over tre. this ia challenge to you, alumni. this is my class, 2019. and myamily is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. amy: we will speak to one of the morehouse graduates, de'jaun correia, as well as ben jealous, the former head of the naacp. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in missouri, republican governor mike parson

in france marine le pen again beat the french president's party. hungary's viktor orban spelled it out the migration issue by itself and the reaction of the people warmly we all reorganized the political spectrum with the european rules for the traditional party families will not play the same role in the future as they have done in the recent years i also and traditional jubilant greens resurgence in germany. become a big hitter in the european parliament. and our family yes. we achieved this because many many people took to the streets for climate protection because many many young people were ready to fight for climate protection in schools universities and sports halls. these they argue these results of the votes of those people who are active on the net and those who are active in companies and small communities also in chambers of trade who said go and vote this is our election that is change europe together and not. yellow vests protest is in brussels on sunday they say the e.u. is undemocratic. everyone wants to change. the fight over which

and present himself as a counterpoint to le pen and salvini.we live in a world of migration i don't believe in walls and. back in legal citizens meeting without all the presidential razzmatazz are still discussing the same issues ecology democracy to. axis. is too much to see. is often accused of being a president of the big cities giving people a voice at the local level is important which. everyone has something to discuss here. but one issue still seems to dominate emanuel mark hall seen by his critics as the president of the rich since the abolition of the wealth tax. or f.r.g. some i think the abolition of the wealth tax is good others don't but maybe a higher tax would be levied on luxury goods but he leaves you with a bubble going up which for the problem is that we tax very little of the assets that consist of enormous blocks of stocks so people constantly make up to 10 percent return in share trading the support of the next one was about macand they say later now has to prove that he has got the message. his town hall dialogues have ra

remain an important partner despite the revolution he joined other speakers including france's marine le pen and the netherlands heard hilda sin predicting historic results for nationalist parties in next week's european parliament elections. our correspondent rebecca rivers is covering that event for us and joins us now from milan rebecca the event has just started i understand what's happened so far. actually michael it now is actually coming to an end behind me here you can probably him a terror cell be there heads be could be the person who organized this event and indeed launched the alliance of the parties who have been speaking here today we've heard from representatives from all the 12 parties they highlighted they are focusing on their their similarities rather than a differences they all are calling for more importance to be placed on national governments they want to bring power back to the national governments they say that brussels has had too much power they are also calling for changes to immigration on these topics and they are united in some of the biggest cheers were for fr

only used to lead the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france and the u.k. nodule for august 1st so easily france england it's the sign of a europe that is changing. but despite his success it's unlikely that salvini will be able to fulfill his dream of working with other nationalists to turn the e.u. on its head from within the populace in other countries did not do as well meaning the far right will still be in a minority in the european parliament. and they're also divided among themselves hungary is anti immigrant leader viktor netted more than 50 percent of the vote but disagrees with other populists on a range of issues even so analysts say would be no longer possible. for europe to go back to business as usual given the gains made by such parties. while the mainstream center parties have suffered big losses in europe selections among them germany's ruling coalition of conservatives and social democrats speaking about the results the conservative leader acknowledged that her party a failed to address the worries of younger voters especially over climat

macron begins his dual with marine le pen.as marine le pen who just pipped emmanuel macron's party in terms of most votes in these elections. you have another take on the story?” don't know when this photo was taken but it was after the result. look at it. it says the storm. —— scorn. he onlyjust he only just lived he onlyjust lived in but it's a massive loss. i almost don't believe it. and it is a real challenge now for him, isn't it? absolutely. they didn't exist as a party five years ago, they have 20 seats now in the european parliament, that sounds pretty good. but for the president, a relatively new president to be picked by the person he beat in the residence or election, that is hard to take. she didn't do it by much but it is enough. especially as he came out of the starting gate as a political figure from nowhere, came out of the starting gate as a politicalfigure from nowhere, doing so well. and this mould newspaper —— smile, pointing out as a man

"this is a people's victory," said the delighted mrs le pen., aka europe's voters, didn't support mrs le pen's political allies as much as she had hoped across the eu. millions of europeans cast a vote for change, but not all looked for answers in the far right. the pro—european greens did phenomenally well, as did europe's liberals. we are witnessing a polarised society, so now we are going to use the leverage the citizens gave us to try and enact change at european level, reducing social inequality, reducing our ecological footprint, improving public health. we will see whether the others are prepared for that. seemingly unprepared for this new fragmented political order are the eu's traditional power blocs, the centre—left and the centre—right. germany's government was given a very bloody nose. like in the uk, europe's voters are favouring political movements they believe better reflect their priorities. there are questions today as to how long angela merkel can or should stay in office. and all this could well affect the brexit process. the

we heard in the clip of marine le pen there saying that the e.u.as kind of the root of all evil and that it needed to be basically destroyed from within instead of being so explicit about it now they're saying that they want to reform the e.u. but they leave open what that exactly means on the other hand i'd be careful to assume that these parties are going to be able to coordinate with one another very closely because they are quite different in nature they're also very unstable as we've seen with the austrian example they're very volatile because of the internal dynamics in the parties and on a lot of key issues they do not agree with one another for example marine le pen and salvini are very sort of fond of russia and vladimir putin and have really tried to curry favor with him over the years whereas in a country like poland they're very anti russia poland also has a few. right government in place and poland for example is also very pro e.u. people don't want to leave the european union and i think that's also true in some of these other countri

will have no seats in the upcoming parliament while in france there's also been a jubilant marine le pen speaking to the media she says that the fact that her party national rally upset to be the biggest winners in france means that the money will mark on the french president should dissolve parliament hold elections for that and she's also said that the good showing by her party shows that she set up to mount a big challenge for the french presidency in 2022. or certainly the president has no other choice but to dissolve the national assembly and allow for a more democratic voting system in order to better represent this country's majority political opinion the feeding of traditional parties and the polarization between the national rally party and the renaissance party confirms that the political scene is now split between nationalists and globalists and that's what dominates our political life. well in austria it's been well a rough 2 weeks for the standalone written government there and the corruption scandal has cost cost them a vice chancellor and all of the junior coalition partne

"this is a people's victory," said a delighted mrs le pen.but the people, aka europe's voters, didn't support mrs le pen's political allies as much as she had hoped across the eu. millions of europeans cast a vote for change, but not all looked for answers in the far—right. the pro—european greens did phenomenally well, as did europe's liberals. we are witnessing a polarised society, so now we are going to use the leverage that the citizens gave us to try and enact change at a european level, reducing social inequality, reducing our ecological footprint, improving public health. we will see whether the others are prepared for that. seemingly unprepared for this new, fragmented political order are the eu's traditional power blocs, the centre—left and the centre—right. germany's government was given a very bloody nose. like in the uk, europe's voters are favouring political movements they believe better reflect their priorities. there are questions today as to how long angela merkel can or should stay in office. and all this could well affect t

european elections he also praised the far right leader marine le pen's campaign. despite her publicly distancing herself from him. and french doctors have begun taking a quadriplegic mon off life support after his ordeal ignited a right to die debate. in france forty two year old vasilinda has spent the last eleven years in a vegetative state. after two thousand eight motorcycle accidents. thanks for watching france twenty four now first came in influence peddling scandal that soul austria's vice chancellor resign and that political crisis has now. leled to alll m ministers fromme far rigight freedom party steppg down from austria's coalitionon governments must seem corny as all the latest. the fallout from the stalker scandal continues on monday afternoon austria's chancellor sebastian courts told reporters in vienna he had decided to fire the country's far right interior minister herbert cackle. i have decided in consultation with the federal presidents to propose the interior ministers firing to the president. herbert kinkel a member of the fbo or freedom party

not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france and the u.k. nodule for august 1st so italy france england it's the sign of a europe that is changing. but despite his success it's unlikely that salvini will be able to fulfill his dream of working with other nationalists to turn the e.u. on its head from within the populace in other countries did not do as well meaning the far right will still be in a minority in the european parliament. and they're also divided among themselves hungary's anti immigrant leader viktor orban netted more than 50 percent of the vote but disagrees with other populists on a range of issues even so analysts say would be no longer possible or why the europe to go back to business as usual given the gains made by such parties. austrian chancellor sebastian courts and his government have been ousted after opposition parties joined forces in a vote of no confidence the motion was backed by lawmakers from the far right freedom party in coalition with courts until last week it was a spectacular reverse for a leader who only

france's marine le pen was one of the far right leaders celebrating last night victory over the party president emmanuel mccall was razor thin but hugely symbolic she say's it means things will have to change in france in future. she was a soft children as she has been working on believes he can get out of the situation where she finds himself tonight the failure to defeat that is experienced in the region and which he will play recklessly with the same name it will not work if that is not what the french people expect. in britain and to european leader nigel farrar she also said the success of his party showed not just that britons want to leave the e.u. but that they also want politics to change fundamentally. but the most significant victory of the night went to metairie salvini is far right to lead party in italy. there when went beyond all expectations salvini said this was a sign that europe was about to undergo a transformation. not only is the league the 1st party in italy but marine le pen is the 1st party in france in the u.k. nodule for august 1st so italy france england it

remain an important partner despite the revelations he joined other speakers including france's marine le pen and the netherlands have to fill gaps in predicting historic results for nationalist parties in next week's european parliament elections. our correspondent rebecca ritter's attended the gathering in milan earlier i asked her what message the leaders had for the crowd at the rally all are calling for more importance to be placed on national governments they want to bring power back to the national governments they say that brussels has had too much power they are also calling for changes to immigration on these topics and they are you know i said some of the biggest cheers were for francis marine le pen she spoke of. she blamed europe for globalization which he said is led to inequality in europe but really the biggest cheers were reserved from a tired selvi that he came to the stage play with of to it to you know pavarotti is nessun dorma and sort of adding fuel to the argument that somebody is really using a lot of this pan-european policy idea to use to rally for domestic politics.

marine le pen turned up, representing her party in france.e netherlands was also there, they are willing to work as well. there were two very conspicuous absentees, looked at all but was not there. the law and justice party, the people in charge in poland, though there are nationalist sentiments they may share with other people, they say that they are not going to work with marine le pen. while it is easy to see these far right parties initially parties in one coherent block, mr salvini would like to see that, we know what they oppose, they oppose brussels in its current form. that does not necessarily mean they we re that does not necessarily mean they were gone. remember, there will be full coverage of the results on a sunday on our special programme on the bbc from inside the european parliament in brussels. that is the results, from 8pm gmt on bbc world news. going to be fascinating. commonalities between some of these parties but also all their own distinct local issues as well which is perhaps why they cannot come together so easily to

parliament across the continent against a populist far right parties including a narrow victory for marine le pen over president mccraw in france in germany meanwhile historic setbacks for chance in america conservatives on the social democrats a major surge and support though for the greens good news for europe an unexpectedly high turnout question here on quadriga today is votes in europe votes wake up call for brussels to discuss that question i'm joined here in the studio by derek scally who writes for the irish times and derek says pro e.u. forces have dodged a populist bullet with one last chance to deliver on the issues too big for individual member states above all he says climate change and also with us the show me show to deal a freelance journalist who reports in french german and english and he cautions to not overstate the significance of the far right retreat in france interesting stuff and a very warm welcome to say the political activist current taylor who argues that even if there has been no major shift to the right changer. there is no guarantee that we are not heading towards

le pen distanced herself from him to some extent. think that's an underlying current, and salvini used it to his advantage. he's going to work to try to unite all those far right like minded thinkers that are in the european parliament, and try to make a change. he has promised his constituents that he's going to change europe from the inside. it's going to be hard to deliver on that. that's a promise he's making this morning. >> thank you very much. let's go to nina dell santos in south hampton. the brexit party was found on the 20th of january but seemed to have had a victorious evening. talk to us about why it is so popular and whether or not this is going to have to push the governing party in the uk to a more extreme brexit position. >> reporter: well, first of all, remember, bianca, that any vote in this country, whether at a local level or national level is being viewed and thought as a proxy for rerunning that divisive referendum. the country apparently appears to be deeply divided more or less along the same pattern and more

"this is a people's victory," said a delighted mrs le pen.a europe's voters — didn't support mrs le pen's political allies as much as she'd hoped across the eu. millions of europeans cast a vote for change, but not all looked for answers in the far—right. the pro—european greens did phenomenally well, as did europe's liberals. we are witnessing a polarised society. so, now we are going to use the leverage that the citizens gave us to try and enact change at european level. reducing social inequality, reducing our ecological footprint, improving public health. we will see whether the others are prepared for that. seemingly unprepared for this new fragmented political order are the eu's traditional power blocs, the centre—left and the centre—right. germany's government was given a very bloody nose. like in the uk, europe's voters are favouring political movements they believe better reflect their priorities. there are questions today as to how long angela merkel can, or should, stay in office. and all this could well affect the brexit process.

a marine le pen is a serious force but let's look at the other parties who are constructive people the same voters mainstream voters just shifted their allegiances from the large parties to the small parties but they stayed within the mainstream and i think that's the message from these european elections ok just one more word on the other big issue that we have already talked now climate change on the show why now why is it suddenly the issue why are people gathering around and looking as though they are willing to make sacrifices and see so strongly with the change i think well the is being. made of glass or maybe there could have been quite a few reports that alarming news reports. report that i have that that have been in the media in the past months the rate of extinctions in their customs plastic pollution and of course the climate change in general. and in the past few months we've had this this empress have mobility mobilization of teenagers high school kids around turnberry from sweden so this has caught the public's eyes and all those teenagers have parents who are voters so