according to the german government, there's been a sharp rise in neo-nazi crimes in germany in recentears, most of them targeted at germany's growing immigrant population, turks, and others called gypsies. in a high-profile case members of a neo-nazi subgroup are on trial for 10 racially motivated murders across the country. last year german chancellor angela merkel felt the need to apologize for these racist crimes calling them her country's shame. later merkel visited dachau concentration camp and again warned of the growing extremism in her country. for his part he counters the extremism by visiting classrooms and reminding students there are echos of the past all around. >> translator: what shapes my life today are childhood experiences of being ostracized, being mocked for being a jew, being isolated for being a jew, being attacked for being a gypsy as people said at the time. this is something that must be and i believe can be conveyed to young people. that's what drives me to be so active today. >> this ongoing remembrance of the holocaust is hardly limited to few remaining sur

is used more like alter nationalists is probably what they are and even others have called them neo nazis who are these people. yes i'd like to address something that. and with all due respect to his academic credentials and standing has been repeating in the pages of the key of post tonight on this program he has suggested without any substantiation and quite frankly somewhat ill informed and. without any grounding that all of the violence that has been perpetrated against the police which we can all watch nightly live streaming and video from the beginning has been perpetrated by the government themselves that they have driven tractors into their own lines that they are tossing molotov cocktails and stabbing themselves with knives this is. quite frankly absurd even the most western experts to c.b.c. can i interrupt here because this is a straight forward i have on december first it's very clear you can't lead or cranes gab. it was the minister of interior vet brought in base a truck anybody who saw the pictures could see that there but otherwise. riot police were just standing to get it

neo nazi. president of of the so-called right sector group. called again zero and a neo nazi and the right is from all sides east and west and all sides of the political spectrum. therefore i don't think that everyone will full of the opposition leaders to of what a peaceful resolution of these of these conflicts some of these us. from the violence and they will continue for some time and we call the opposition leaders they feed off of these top jobs presumably they will take them and doing so well that now we can even more after all the presidential powers will be lessened as a result of this agreement. this is true but they don't see how else he can save their face and indeed his presidency. as you mentioned the situation in ukraine is dire and in fact there are various. civil disobedience going through the rest of the country in the center of the country and something has to be pretty drastic i believe the president made a number of mistakes he saved. and he didn't do that he was perceived as an arrogant and therefore he needs to make these

neo nazi. but it isn't a bit of a so-called right sector group we began zend a neo nazi and the right is from all sides east and west and also the political spectrum therefore i don't think that everyone will fall all. of positionally interest of what a peaceful resolution of these of these qualities linked to some of these deals held down from the violence and they will continue for some time over the past two months there you know my done has changed in form and meaning what started as a peaceful protest broadcast has turned into a display of violence on both sides it has now grown in size to with almost half of the country's regional administration stake in over spawning serious concerns the country could fall apart any sort of splits in the area. could happen within. next weeks must be described as quite possible because government wouldn't have enough forces so ukraine will be probably in two parts. we have two different causes the opposition is still working horns with those in power tryi

of the back of sheen or the fatherland party and the neo nazi leader only good chinese are all of this photo party are all. i ing for egos emplacement with the protest movement themselves trying to position themselves as the presidential candidate none of them have shown any indication that they are willing to step down in front of the other two which of course is exactly the type of division among the opposition that led to victory almost five years ago and by the way right now waiting for talks between the opposition and the president to start well any time soon i believe what could come out of this what can we expect and we all obviously know that none of the sides are going to compromise going to go on any concessions. i don't know what's. i wrote though you go ahead i don't think we can really expect anything out of these talks both sides are playing for time at this point i don't think that the opposition leaders really know what to do at this point they've lost control of these crowds. the rioters themselves have indicated that they've completely lost faith with these opposition

your opinion from your standpoint the driving force is clear its fundamental far right extremist neo nazi politics everyone knew that wins for border achieved around ten percent of the vote in the october two thousand and twelve elections were going to be record and it didn't take long and this is been in the offing for a long time and if you notice now no one is even talking about the association agreement in fact no one's even talking about to release from prison which were supposedly the touch papers which lit this up this was really orchestrated from the beginning and in fact if you go into occupied city hall now you see us for borders flags for borders banners flying bedecked across the building so make no mistake this is an attempt by a party strongly linked with far right neo nazi politics overthrow the ukrainian government well you know now that you mention that i mean we can see that nationalist groups are gaining momentum there i mean there are so many different factions there and we're hearing that you know that specific nationalist group is in fact you know gaining prominence

fault that is how they were crude greece has seen a marked increase in support of the far right and neo nazi groups golden dawn and organization the right did by their critics is hooligans and third heralded by their supporters as the savior for greece for the greeks and they systematic and not going to preach and cultivate. but they attack systematical immigrants present golden dawn of made it the most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias custody out us it's not only in politics that extreme right to abuse the permeating this goal celebration by the athens just kept the artists so the midfielder banned for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't know what the salute meant but the clearest indicator of the popularity of the far right will be when europeans go to the polls in may to vote in the e.u. parliamentary elections one of those parties on the rise in france's muddying lipans national front. on the european people are realizing that the use in empire the soviet union that in fact is destroying their freedom despite insisten

take into account here because there is also a third opposition leader only john a block of the neo nazi leader of the slow boat a party and most of these aggressive rioters that we have seen on the ground several thousand on my. street and elsewhere on the my done from the right sector i find it very unlikely that they will agree to the details of this agreement that we include all of the protesters of back you waiting the streets and the government buildings that they have an occupying. those people along with the liberals and the moderates did actually want to converge to go and he's clearly not going izzy's those but certainly the extremist elements could well carry on then in the streets protesting you think if they have been calling for revolution and i don't think at this point that the opposition leaders these liberal opposition leaders have shown that they actually have control of the situation or of the protesters the telly klitschko being sprayed by a fire extinguisher the other day when he attempted to. calm down the crowds there any attempt to attack the police lines was a c

as for the neo-nazis and anti-semites in western ukraine, there were some, but at the same time, if you to them, if you interview them, and if you read their demands, you will not find any dissemination laws among third -- any among them. at the same time they support the pro-european protests and this is partly what euromaidan is about. there are many false reports about the beatings of representatives of national minorities in ukraine. mostly these reports are all false. they're being spread by .ussian-backed propagandists they're trying to distort the image of euromaidan and picture it as something very violent, something very right-wing. although, the right wing element, as i said, is a minor element of euromaidan. .> professor stephen cohen can you respond to what he is saying and also talk about how people are informed tear archly to the media, the media coverage of what is happening in ukraine? >> i already responded to what anton has set. to me, it is a fundamental his representation and raises questions in my mind, though he's entitled to his lyrical allegiances, who he represe

clacks a notorious neo-nazi tried to take over a sleepy town and he expected residents to follow his lead. in november, he and a henchman swaggered through the town carrying shotguns and shouting obscenities. both men are now in custody and today appeared in court where they pleaded not guilty. the bbc went to the remote community to find out how the people fought back. >> the chilling signs of hate and racism, evidence of an ongoing battle for a tiny in north dakota. the 20 residents have lived in fear of a notorious white supremacist who began buying land. >> it was about the middle of august. he was planning on making it an all-white enclave and it would leave my husband and i i don't know where. >> an interracial couple that became fearful. >> he referred to my husband as my pet. he had said before that it is legal to have livestock in town, referring to my husband. livestock. >> he came after fleeing the authorities in canada after he was accused of inciting hatred. the son of a multimillionaire businessman, he bought one dozen cheap plots of land and gave them to other extra mi

fault that is how they were cruet greece has seen a marked increase in support of the far right and neo nazi groups golden dawn and organization the right did by their critics is hooligans and thirds heralded by their supporters as the savior of the greeks for the greeks and they systematical not only preach and cultivate. violent behavior but they attack systematically immigrants present golden dawn have made it further than most they have elected officials on their books including current greek m.p. elias custody at us it's not only in politics that extreme right to abuse a permeating this goal celebration by. athens the order to stop the itis so the midfielder banned for life from the national team despite his claims that he didn't know what the salute meant but the clearest indicator of the popularity of the far right will be when europeans go to the polls in may to vote in the e.u. parliamentary elections one of those parties on the rise in france is muddying the lipans national front. on the european people are realizing that the year is an empire the soviet union that in fact is destr

neo nazi. therefore i do not think that everyone will for loyal. opposition leader us to all of what a peaceful resolution of these of these conflicts some of these deals hellbound on the violence and they will continue for some time. over the past two months there you know my done has changed in form and meaning what started as a peaceful pro e.u. protest has turned into a display of violence on both sides it has now grown in size to with almost half of the country's regional administrations taken over spawning serious concerns the country could fall apart any sort of splits in the area. could happen within the next two weeks must be described as quite possible because given. and what they have on our forces will be split it probably in two parts. with two different that is the opposition is still working horns with those in power trying to get a better deal with the president. but the protestors storming a police base and doing the people who are acting as their leaders suggest they no longer want to listen to anyone and care little about any agr

they fail to sort of condemn these actions of no not just be fair to separate themselves from the neo nazis. at some time but i think you can deny that you know not just where you will be said these but old for the purest form going to court you know which was a voice of light which you know that this is serious i mean i can give a full rich boon for his own process and for all meld of course feels like his own police so these people were rescued from the very beginning and it's a shame for the western press more to not just don't know not to have noticed them in two thousand and four and five and to feel all these lies to the western public of all to see which society and the balkanized ukrainian people there are you know these are not evil you don't know enough. and i made the tension in the ukrainian capital aussie international will keep you up to date with events throughout the day and also you can log on to cold for live updates from kenya. less than twenty four hours before the peace talks on syria begin in switzerland he continues to make a big challenges ahead. russia's concerned t

neo nazi. representative of the so-called right sector group we combine school begins and and you know nazi and the right is from all sides east and west and all sides of political spectrum therefore i don't think that everyone will follow of the call of a physician leaders to put a peaceful resolution of these of these conflicts some of these youth. will burn for the violence and they will continue for some time. this is our two international more news ahead after this break. with the economic downturn the find a long. night and the rest i take it will be if we. want to know your. face i think you know the. pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm researcher. and welcome back you're watching our t.v. international egypt's anniversary of the two thousand and eleven uprising has been marred by deadly violence at least twenty nine people have been killed in clashes across the country police descended on the protesters firing tear gas and shooting bullets in the air just comes that desp

important what i'm going to say i'm not going to call these people protesters i'm going to call them neo nazis and here's why i'm doing that to day in their area off kiev they have these supporters of this man step on bond there are you know kind of the ukrainian nationalists who helped the german nazis invade ukraine in one thousand nine hundred one i have in my hands this is a magazine this is not a russian magazine this is a polish magazine it shows mr bond there is face and he says bond there are regular terrorist bund there and his men killed thousands of joules poor russians in ukraine they killed all sought tens of thousands of ukrainians and somehow he's the only man whose portrait these people are carrying and if you look at their so-called protesters you will see that there are ukrainian flags and there are many red and black flags these are the flags ok so called ukrainian insurgent army ok mcgovern i love you all these people brought your medals there you know your mess you've made your point john would you reflect upon that because one of the reasons why i wanted to do this progra

first and foremost we can see one very important factor of the so-called opposition there is led by neo nazi groups and militant groups now i mean it's dominated by those groups and i think that well if we would compare their riots in kiev with several riots in western european countries in the united states of. the polish thought to react to even more let's say brutally if they had such a situation in any of european capitals so i guess the in the case of backwater and in case of the ball is in ukraine the reaction was quite soft as we know when it comes to the reaction of the police there of those people will be assault. yesterday where probably by some provoke caterers because of the police the brain of police doesn't use that kind of weapon because the communication. has been used in the case to thank you very much indeed mathias because key political scientists from the european center geo political analysis learned from warsaw thank you so much for your thoughts and your time. well far right groups as we've been discussing at the core of the protests in ukraine and they're making it cl

who john mccain for example sat down and had dinner with when he was there in december these are neo nazis interestingly enough john mccain has made a surprise visit to budapest today one can only wonder what he's discussing with the hungary and government as we know there is a large john kerry minority in parts of ukraine and why are they discussing ukraine it seems to be high on the agenda this is a security meeting in munich when overseas there are other global issues which could perhaps be far more important the likes of syria. well i think what many people don't understand is that the e.u. association agreement with ukraine did contain a security component that required ukraine to cooperate with nato forces there is reason enough to be concerned about nato troops facing russian troops just across the border so it's an issue of enormous importance it's a geo strategic issue for the united states and it's becoming a very serious issue it's it'll be interesting to see what comes of kerry's meeting with the foreign minister lavrov which is supposed to take place i believe in the next few