thousands of people have gathered in rome to protest against the divisive rhetoric of far right leader teo salvini and his anti immigrant league party organizers say the movement stands against intolerance nationalism and xena phobia it started just a month ago as a flash mob participants adopted the name sardines as they aim to fill public squares as tightly as fish packed in a tin cans for more information let's bring in journalist seem a good journalist in rome. this new protest movement is only a few weeks old how did merge and why. well essentially it's a grassroots movement if you like you had these 4 young italians they're all india ease they were meeting a would did last month and talking about how they were just fed up with the nationalistic tone that was in the political discourse in the country particularly that leader you mentioned multi-use the need their rhetoric of he says well is anti even the green sentiment and the fed up a bit in this they wanted to see whether they could get all the people who felt similarly as them together. even when the yeah which is where they were you know