Szell flavor our guide had already warned me that if I was hoping to see something exotic I might be disappointed it's full of Chinese people you see on the grill nowadays and how a time of plastic has swept through Eastern Europe in Rumania I watched the silhouette of a man riding a horse and cart along the embankment of the river are together southwest of Bucharest yet another illegal waste dump in what should have been the magnificent wetlands on the river shore all that and more on from our own correspondent after this bulletin of b.b.c. World news. Hello this is David Alston with the b.b.c. News a senior British government minister Michael Gove has said Britain will leave the European Union at the end of the month to spite having requested a delay in a television interview missed to go said that parliament could not force the prime minister Boris Johnson to change his mind even though he's complied with the legal requirement to send the e.u. a Letter asking it to postpone Brix it until the end of January the foreign secretary Dominic Rob said talk by some members of the Opposition about holding another brick said referendum was foolish we've got to deal why would you have a 2nd referendum if you're going to give effect to break divulge of the deal as it deals with the I think legitimate concerns some have about a new job Rex it I think a lot of people think get this done we got a deal people had written the prime minister off he's confounded the Deltas they have again been violent protests on the streets of Hong Kong with thousands of people marching despite the police ban shops banks and metro stations were vandalized many of the protesters to fight about on wearing face masks Nick beak is there within hours of another large peaceful rally beginning on the streets of Hong Kong a hardcore of protest is was throwing petrol bombs at a police station offices on the roof responded by firing many rounds of tear gas the violent demonstrates is finally cleared when the police was accounted appeared and sprayed powerful jets of blue liquid along the streets which in normal times would be full of Sunday shoppers the police had banned today's mass demonstration but thousands ignored the threat of arrest they say China is a writing their freedoms the Beijing backed government in Hong Kong says the violence must stop and that foreign powers are inflaming the crisis 3 people have died in the Chilean capital Santiago during a 2nd night of violent protests the mayor has said that they were killed when a supermarket was set alight by riot his Despite Santiago and the city of El Parise so being. The curfew has changed chambers the coffee has failed to deter protest as demonstrators that looting shops and damaging metro stations and buses defying a new order to staff the night the trouble with Spot the rise in the cost of Metro tickets President Kenyatta has now announced that he will cancel the increase saying he's listening to the people but for many that's not enough that angry about the inequality in Chile those salaries the high cost of health care education and poor pension provisions the engine easy and presidents Djoko we don't do is being sworn in for his 2nd term in office in a ceremony that's being conducted amid tight security 30000 soldiers and police were on duty overnight to prevent any violence at the event which is being attended by regional leaders popularly known as the president was reelected in April. News from the b.b.c. The authorities in Nigeria say they freed nearly 150 students from a facility in the northern state of Kaduna where they've been subjected to abuse this is the 4th such raid in the last month from what I meant to be Islamic schools the police say more than $1000.00 people have been freed. The u.s. Secretary of defense Mark said that all remaining American troops in northern Syria are expected to be relocated to Iraq Mr esper told journalists that under current plans about a 1000 soldiers would be sent to western Iraq to help stop the resurgence of Islamic state militants people in Switzerland are voting today in parliamentary elections which could challenge the traditional dominance of the right wing Swiss Peoples Party they remained a large force in Suppose politics for 2 decades on a message of restricting immigration and keeping the country out of the European Union image in folks as in the capital Ben opinion polls suggest climate changes with voters number one concern the Alpine glass years are shrinking and so Switzerland's to Green parties are expected to do well in these elections support for the right wing's with People's Party appears to be waning its traditional campaign issues immigration and nonmembers Switzerland's ties with the European Union are not cutting through this year more women are standing than ever before and there are over 400 young candidates who are not even eligible to vote at the last election 4 years ago image and folks reporting from the Swiss capital the longest nonstop commercial passenger flights has landed successfully in the Australian city of Sydney the Quantas playing took 19 hours and 16 minutes to fly direct from New York the airline is considering whether to begin regular nonstop flights between the 2 cities that's the latest b.b.c. 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World Service I'm Pascal hasa Welcome to the program in this edition we're up in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan with people who are proud to be different we also visit Cambodia where through the neon lit fog of Sihanoukville you can discern the dizzying pace of change and the story of a plastic bottle back when it was a rarity one correspondent contemplates the journey of plastic and people in the countryside of Eastern Europe but 1st to Canada which is getting ready for a general election on Monday 4 years ago Justin Trudeau was elected prime minister leading the Liberal Party to victory with promises of hope and hard work at a time when the us and some other western democracies were turning towards populism his slick but sincere style and claims he'd hold on to progressive values were big winners especially with Canada's younger voters has recently though he's made a number of missteps which some political analysts say might mean his supporters stay home on Election Day Meanwhile his main rival isn't exactly energizing the vote is either Jennifer. It was Thanksgiving this past weekend a time when Canadian celebrate family and food here in Ottawa It was perfect autumn weather just starting to get cold without any snow and the streets alive with color as red and yellow leaves fall to the ground while blue red and orange political campaign signs spring up on every other lawn because every 4 years Thanksgiving is also a time for Canadians to think about the coming election and talk about politics with their families although this time maybe not so much despite a strong economy and low unemployment Justin Trudeau is only just neck and neck in the polls with his chief political rival It's looking unlikely that he'll win another majority government So what went wrong well a series of embarrassing scandals has taken the shine off the Liberal leader it started with a fumbled trip to India last year where Trudeau was seen repeatedly dressed in traditional Indian clothing while his hosts including Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan or Western style suits the juxtaposition was awkward he then lost 2 cabinet ministers over an ethics scandal finally and most humiliatingly on a global stage it was revealed Trudeau dressed up in black face several times before he was a politician the act of painting his face to appear Arab or black for costume parties widely accepted as racist deeply shocked some Canadians how could this so-called beacon of progressive values do such a thing but his main rival conservative leader Anders shear has not been able to capitalize on Trudeau's fall from favor embarrassing ghosts from his own past have come back to haunt him turns out that sheer whose party mocks Trudeau's pre-political career as a teacher and snowboarding instructor has a rather thin c.v. Himself and more damaging it was revealed the Conservative leader has both Canadian and American citizenship people here are not quite so scornful of our neighbors to the south for that fact to be a problem on its own. It's that shear and his conservative predecessor often called into question the divided loyalties of other political leaders who held dual Canadian and French citizenship so there's egg on both faces and many voters are left with distaste for the 2 front runners in this election neither Trudeau's liberals nor sheers conservatives looks set to win a majority of seats in the House of Commons and they may need the support of another party to form a government Trudeau could turn to the Green Party to support him if they have the electoral breakthrough they've been longing for or he might look to the left wing New Democrats the n.d.p. Leader is the 1st person of color to lead a major political party in Canada and after a better than expected performance in last week's debates judgment sings popularity is on the rise for the conservatives the choice of who could support their minority government is less clear the block to the Quad a party that only runs candidates in the mainly French speaking province of Quebec is also surging in the polls but support from them could be problematic some question how a party whose creation was designed to push for the breakup of Canada through back independence could be called on to hold the balance of power in a national government Trudeau ensure aren't officially looking for dance partners just yet instead they're out frantically canvassing for votes in the last days left each trying to get enough momentum to win a majority and an already nasty campaign by Canadian standards is set to get nastier at last week's debates sure called Trudeau a phony and a fake the Liberals have been trying to divert voters' attention towards sheers past statements against gay marriage and abortion. And over the weekend Trudeau was forced to wear a bulletproof vest in public after an unnamed security threat he later said that we're living in a time of increased polarization. But not of our family's Thanksgiving dinner my aunt refused to let anyone talk politics she said she didn't want to hear any more about this election so we ate our turkey and pumpkin pie and talked about the weather and looked at the window at all the beautiful colors Jenna Fischer Valley in. It's a recurrent theme on this program how China's economic influence is being felt the world over from Poland to Kazakhstan it's belts and roads transport an infrastructure plan is trying to reshape the landscape across Africa Chinese investment is transforming markets off to markets and all given a changing whole countries closer to home in states bordering the People's Republic there are rumblings of discontent in Cambodia Southeast Asia Chinese companies own billions of dollars worth of power plants and offshore oil operations there are also effectively remaking whole cities places like Sihanoukville a port in the south of the country Vincent nee went to have a look around and found that these days Vincent ne went to have a look around and found that these days attitudes to people of Chinese origin have grown somewhat complicated the Lonely Planet Travel Guides describe the port city of see how the crew as a springboard to the best of Cambodia's white sand beaches and a casa Wakool southern islands according to one come board in government spokesman this place also aims to become a combination of city come via the Las Vegas and Singapore before long. Even reality psionic bill could PAP's most a kindly be described as a work in progress even before we arrived after an excruciating 8 Howard bus ride from the Capitol known pen our guide Mr Lean had already warned me that if I was hoping to see something exotic I might be disappointed it's full of Chinese people in Sihanoukville nowadays his eyes scan our group as if he were looking for a real Chinese person to get his message and then they took our port to destroy our young Vironment and they looked down on us missile in whose ancestors in fact also came from China several generations ago eventually turned to me with a friendly not but they're looking his eyes suggested he really my think he was personally responsible be as Nick Chinese is somewhat unwelcome in many parts of Southeast Asia these days I certainly didn't want to pick a fight with this man after all we will be relying on Him to guide us through the next few days I did not respond but kept looking at him and nodding expressionlessly then turned my head to look at the farmer's workers and the piles of rubbish next to Qantas construction sites torrential rain came and I went leaving the air fetid it was a complete surprise when we arrived in c. 100 fail that night driving downtown it almost felt like a 3rd tier Chinese city the billboards were primarily retain measuring and then Google translated into the local come our language with the results that often amusing locos Chinese restaurants were everywhere too with mind boggling names such as cockroach Bobby q. And a wolf warrior fried fish there was even the fertility clinic for Chinese men. The streets were dark and the roads muddy after the downpour but even so young women stood a lie after lie in nearly to Masada parlors looking for potential clients from tourists buses the end mistake odor of sewage lingered amid all this glittering casinos either being built or already open but only foreigners are welcome their rules are displayed clearly at the entrances no German fruit no bombs no come out people the next day Mr Ling took up his Michael from the bus to entertainers again he seemed like a true patriot he spoke proudly of Cambodia's history and he told us of its alternative name the kingdom of wonder Cambodia indeed makes him Wanda after the French left we did well he said regaling us with tales of the good old days of the 90 fifties and sixties before he was born this 45 year old man came from one of the poorest of villages in Cambodia he survived a Camaro as an infant then taught himself English by listening to the b.b.c. As an adult he worked in several jobs before the current one into a reason life has never been easy for miscellany as a has never been for most Cambodians dextrin weather and climate change have made flooding a part of their daily lives do not always corruption along with the poor governance and the death or tear also a terrible of Prime Minister Hun Sen made the most Cambodians reticent and reluctant to speak out our driver clearly did not like much of what Mr Lim sat through our journey. Driving through Sihanoukville city center in the morning feels like traveling back to China in the 1990 s. With high rises springing up on every street corner there symbols of the modernity that many Asian countries aspire to achieve in your case the road to modernization was often built by capital from the west now it is Chinese money through the belt and a road initiative that is helping the region develop but behind a facade of promise and prosperity tensions off to simmer between commodious the largest creditor China and its own people a point that Mr Lim is all too keen to articulate for any another grant of disapproval from our driver he complained to us that China had recently signed a secret agreement allowing its armed forces to use a Navy base near c 100 feel at the time we didn't give the gloom a much credence but 2 months later the story was confirmed the major American newspaper my prime minister wants to cut off relations with the West he only wants the Chinese grumbled to Mr Lim then perhaps predictably he turned to me again with the infectious smile and that was Vincent. You're listening to from our own correspondence with me Pascoe Harter here on the b.b.c. World Service. Over the past week the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge you might know them better is Prince William and Kate have been visiting the mountains of Pakistan to meet local communities and discuss how climate change is affecting their lives high up in the Hindu Kush these settlements are far from any rising sea levels but they are increasingly affected by flash flooding and the shrinking glass is many of the villages the royal couple met were from the Kalash ethnic minority a distinct group with its own culture dress and pre Islamic pre-Christian religion Kalash people often have pale skin and blue eyes and their folklore claims that their descendants of one of Alexander the Great's generals d.n.a. Studies have to bunk to this but it's still a missed while deer by Kalash leaders earlier this year Emma Thompson went to visit them. Long or oiled braids tangle at the base of her back like 2 shiny tree snakes now in her thirty's she hasn't cut her hair since she was 8 years old pushed on her head as a ring and headdress of colorful beads and hanging from her thin frame as their Piron a baggy black cotton dress embroidered with symbolic zigzag and floral designs it's this dress that gave her people their name in the 16th century the invading Persians called them to fear Kalash meaning black pagans after their dark groups and the name stuck the Kalash an animist community spread between 3 valleys Bunbury remember and barrier in the folds of the Hindu Kush mountain range in northern Pakistan they worship many gods and goddesses not one supreme deity marriages agreed with a dance and divorce carries no shame because here women have what they call chit choice. Things are very different for the Muslim men and women living all around them and the contrasts have led to friction with concerns about increasing pressure on the Kalash to convert to Islam it's happened before in neighboring Afghanistan the polytheistic communities living in the area called Cafe or Stan literally meaning land of the infidels were forcibly converted to Islam in 1905 and the region was renamed Nuristan land of the light until the late 18th hundreds the Kalash or the dominant tribe in the Hindu Kush No they are the smallest cultural minority in Pakistan numbering around $3500.00 with their fair skin and striking light eyes they claim to be descendants of so Lashkar a Persian general of Alexander the Great Go stand pulls one of her spare Piron dresses over my head and sets to wrapping the party a thick woman belt around my waist yanking it so tight a breath pops from my lips she bounces a headdress on my freshly tied plants and nods approval Today is July Joshi the Spring Festival when they pray to their gods for the safety of their fields and animals rock human stares leaders up to a hilltop or men and women saying dance and flirt go Stan is a daughter so I follow John the chief spokesman for the Kalash or the next day I join him inside the family compound we sit on low stools knees hunched torch s. Next to a fire where a brewing kettle nestles amid the glowing embers some outsiders are concerned that the future of the clashes at risk not only from force religious conversions but also from attacks from the Taliban and flooding linked to climate change we do get bad floods and it's a full hour but donations from a British tour operator have allowed us to build a flood defensible and the Taliban I ask the Taliban used to cross the mountain passes and raid the valley stealing sheep and killing a few people but that was 4 or 5 years ago and I. These days the Clash have more trouble from their immediate neighbors people from lower down in the values to steal our precious temper so I feel a complains when I try to stop them they dropped a hand grenade down our chimney my brother was killed and now the farmers bring their cattle to graze here in our valleys does the Pakistani government help I ask he's pretty skeptical the government pretends to be helpful to minorities but in reality not so much my case against the farmer has been in the courts for 14 years and it still hasn't been resolved finally I ask Saifullah about forced conversions 2 years ago clashes between Kalash and Muslims had international headlines following a row over Tunisia Kalash girl converting to Islam so I wonder of cases like that are getting any more common this time his answer is more sanguine a few Kalash women fall in love with Muslim men and convert but only one or 2 a year and I know many a toll Why is that I ask thanks to education he says younger people are realising how unique or religion is how much freedom offers in comparison to Islam in spite of everything he says the Kalash are holding on they used to move away from work but now they stay home they're proud of their culture again and that's certainly something to sing and dance about. Emma Thompson recycling someone once complained to me has become a new religion people think they're saving the world if they do it I thought that I was a bit extreme at the time but then of course it turned out that much of the rubbish that rich Europe was exporting to be recycled was actually just being dumped at sea China's decision to ban the imports of plastic and other refuse from Europe for recycling has been followed by many other Southeast Asian countries is little by little the rich world is being forced to painfully rethink its whole throw away business model but can we change our ways before we drown the planet in plastic our central Europe Correspondent Nick Fulp has just returned from a trip to remain ia studying the failures and occasional successes of that country in trying to throw away less and recycle more which brought to his mind the memory of a single plastic bottle back when such things were novelties the 800 kilometer drive from Bucharest to Budapest seemed endless back in 1991 potholed roads through poor villages horses and carts vying with fume belching trucks that ponderous progress interlaced with the reckless racing cars of the new urban elite so I was glad of the company of the young Roumanian couple hitchhiking at the roadside We talked about this and that but as we approached their destination I store them my one and a half liter plastic water bottle summoning his courage the boy explained shyly that he'd never seen a bottle like that before could I dare to part with it in return they pressed an assortment of nylon socks on me from the factory where they worked for all its poverty the country was only just emerging from decades of the cruel dictatorship of nickel. The roadsides in Rumania in those days were not kneedeep in refuse as they are. Day and glass bottles carried a small deposit to encourage the drinks industry to reuse them nowadays the $3000000.00 inhabitants of the Rumanian capital Bucharest produced $1000000.00 tonnes of plastic waste a year much of it and been 3 overflowing landfill sites on the ring road I remembered my shy hitchhikers as I followed refuse truck off to refuse truck as I shouted into the camera in way starting plums and as I let pristine pallets of freshly recycled plastic flowed through my fingers in State of the art recycling plums dust fold was Alice said but I can the people must smash everything to smithereens says downtown in down Tom's death. As timeless play about the French Revolution in order to find out what lies inside Mysore join in the rubbish dumps of Roumania also provoked memories of summers beginning in the late 1970 s. Collecting figs in a Greek village the big season began in mid August when the ripe figs fall from the trees and we collected when boss gets to lay them out to dry on the reed bed they said he each summer just before the reign of figs began nomadic gypsies would appear selling handmade baskets woven from Willow the villagers look forward to the appearance of that tends on the hillsides they drove a hard bargain but their boss kits were magnificent year after year in Greece from the 1980 s. Onwards 10 years ahead of Roumania I watched the little stream that ran between the figs slopes fill up with plastic and the Gypsies stopped coming there's something about packaging which underlines the gulf between rich and poor back in Rumania I watched the silhouette of a man riding a horse and cart along the embankment of the river southwest of Bucharest Then he turned down to where I stood on yet another illegal waste dump in what should have been the Magnificent. Wetlands on the river shore as he unloaded the man told me his life story form a blacksmith he supplements his meager pension collecting plastics from shops for which he's paid a small fee a policeman told him to dump it here he told me when he was caught tipping it out behind the church I live on a quarter loaf of bread a day he explained a quarter loaf the decay of man made objects inevitably provokes thoughts of our own mortality as we'd rocketed from recycling plant to recycling plant in a small company car I caught glimpses of Roumanian gypsies at the roadside all made with the old boss gets gathering food for free the walnuts and plums which grow wild in long avenues a consolation for the poor autumn the falling fruit the long journey I remembered a line from d.h. Lawrence's poem the ship of death someone on my smartphone the dog poem appeared almost instantaneously the apples falling like great drops of Jew to bruise themselves and exit from themselves but I had forgotten to my shame the glimmer of redemption with which the poem ends the ship of death which man is exhorted to build passes through total hopeless darkness but then the flood subsides and the body like a warm sea shell emerges strange and lovely and the frail soul steps out into the house again filling the heart with peace might humankind too often we drown in the ocean of our own waste be reborn like that strangely clean wiser even Nick That's all for this edition of from our own correspondent but to him more of the world stories die lemmas and perhaps its wisdom join us again next weekend here on the b.b.c. World Service. Distribution of the b.b.c. World Service in the us is made possible by American Public Media producer and distributor of award winning public radio content a.p.m. American Public Media with support from. Offering open platforms and advanced technologies to power the world's financial markets. Data is just the beginning. This is b.b.c. Trending with me. Coming up in the program. We head to in Athens district known for its radical left wing politics to find out why visitors are being shown the door some residents are blaming the Internet for changing the fate of their neighborhood and not necessarily for the better. Trending after the news. B.b.c. News with David Alston the senior British government minister Michael Gove has insisted that Britain will leave the European Union 11 days from now regardless of an official request to post burn breaks it in a television interview Mr Gove said that Parliament had legally obliged the prime minister Boris Johnson to ask for an extension but it could not force him to change his mind about the timing. There again been violent protests on the streets of Hong Kong with thousands of people marching despite a police ban officers fired tear gas on a group of demonstrators who gathered outside a police station shops banks in metro stations were also vandalized 3 people have died in the Chilean capital Santiago during a 2nd night of violent protests the mayor said that they were killed when a supermarket was satellite's by rioters Santiago and the city. Are under a state of emergency President Sebastian Pinera has suspended a rise in metro fares that sparked the protests but unrest has continued the Indian easy and presidents joke over Dodo has been sworn in for a 2nd term in office in a ceremony that was conducted amid tight security $30000.00 soldiers and police were on duty of a night to prevent any violence at the event which was attended by regional leaders the all thirty's in Nigeria say they freed nearly $150.00 students from a facility in the northern state of Kut doona where they'd been subjected to abuse this is the 4th such raid in the last month on what it meant to be Islamic schools . In the Rugby World Cup Wales have booked their place in the semifinals with a cliffhanger victory over France as nations will team managed to have a turn the score in the match as dying minutes winning 2019 b.b.c. News. Crabby face and go on Instagram Here we go I'm in one of my looking for a case a type that would exhaust into the search box Yeah Ok the eggs a c h i s a hash tag Yeah that's 12 and a half 1000 posts Ok cool what can you say this is kind of a weird mix here so I am seeing photos of black clad protesters with banners. Like the symbol for anarchy the shooting off flares. Looks to be political graffiti anything out a picture of a gun Well here's the other weird thing there's another completely different set of coffee shops and what looks like baked goods in cafes and it's all jumbled up in this one hash tag people throwing Molotov cocktails and beautiful is shot pictures of Cap chinos So what am I looking at here what is x are here. Is the name of a district in central Athens that has often been described by the press as an anarchist enclave it's famous in Greece for its radical left wing politics but in recent years it's also become a bit of a magnet for tourists and that has made some people very angry. And Mike Wendling and this is b.b.c. Trending the program that takes an in-depth look into the world of social media with me today a reporter Jessica Bateman. I've been spending some time in exile him meeting the people who live that the political activists the long term residents. In the business I mean as they accuse social media along with holiday rental websites like a b. And b. Of changing the neighborhood beyond recognition it's stench vacation they say and along with it comes to social problems higher rents and people being pushed out sounds like a familiar story what is happening is cities all around the world such as New York Lisbon Hong Kong but there are some obvious benefits to tourism in gentrification such as the money which many Greeks sorely need of 2 years of financial austerity coming up will walk the streets to find out whether exile his activists really have a point. So Jessica I've never been to x r here myself I haven't even been to Athens but you live in the city do you know the area quite well yes when there's places where if you live in a house in your property of going there for Barrow to a tower or maybe to buy back so records because it's got some great shops but if you're new in town then here's what you need tonight. Examiners I'm in the middle of the city pretty much within walking distance of all those landmarks that come to mind when you think about in such as the past and on the. Incredible buildings from Ancient Greece to Jessica you also mentioned politics how does that fit in yeah that's right exile years unique in Athens because historically it's been a hub of radical left wing politics and a meeting point for different i.q. Scrapes partly because of its large student community. It's that he used to be in the middle of universities in the body they can get events through the gate that physics and low schoolers Teso Secrest a self-taught and I kissed his lived in what things are here on and off the most of his life so exactly became the center of God The cards are in the center of Athens with bars clubs and bars and of clubs and also it started to be. Meeting point for young people from all around us since that they were part of the counterculture. Inside this cultural environment really just really through the years that this started to be like a center for organize that argues our differences are people. And I have to say it's this political identity that perhaps 1st hit she when your arrive next are here. The building is a covered in colorful and often political courtesy to the posters on the rules cool for demonstrations some cash and invite you to an evening of poetry against the state the same state that after a new center right government was elected in July vowed to clean up what they described as lawlessness in the area of suspects not here. The question about exactly it's not one of repression it's how historical neighborhood a vast and will find again its rhythm its life how will cooperate with the municipality to help the rebirth of this neighborhood on the repression Yes there is police intervention in exile is that he's everywhere in Athens that was prime minister curious in its attack as you had there and here's why the future of exhaust here has become part of his political agenda. Many conservative politicians in Greece have the year is described as a hotbed of leftwing terror groups drug abuse and criminality. So shortly after taking office the new government ordered police writes to empty a number of schools in the area buildings occupied by an a kiss migrants an asylum seeker is some of these quotes happy come dangerously have a crowded with reports of violence imagine every now and then when the police raids began many residents were suspicious and felt the government's actions were driven by ideology rather than a. Anyone concern for public safety. So this reputation for lawlessness and these police raids have they turn people off from visiting not quite there's still plenty of tourist main around or more in the way they here's the thing some people exhaust fill the type of businesses a coming into the neighborhood have changed in recent years they say people no younger come because they're interested in radical politics instead because they just want cheap rooms in central Athens and because there are more tourists than ever they say this is added to the pressures felt in the neighborhoods so people's anger has started boiling knife take a look at this. Wow Ok let me describe what we're seeing here it's a Facebook video was posted a couple of months ago and you have what appears to be a group of tourists walking away from someone a person a woman who's filming this we had to edit out a cuss word she is but you get the message some people make Saia Rhydian happy about this new wave of tourists that have arrived in the neighborhood where on Facebook did you find this video so I found it on a page called Exile here tourism what Yep What are the people managing the page I know the women in the video agreed to speak to us and they wanted to remain anonymous because they favor tatty ation by the authorities so we asked one of our colleagues to voice their answers for us and as you might have guessed yes there was some mischief in the way they chase to name the page that was specifically to cut people's votes so that was the main goal of the pages to incite action against gentrification that was gentrification is one I had again and again from people in excite here they complain about the way tourism is transforming the neighborhood we have. A lot of tourists coming in here specifically to check out exactly like the street or something like that but in my opinion most of the people who are coming in are really just looking for cheap rent or to have the cheap vacation. We're not . We're against the economic model of Tourism is essentially just tearing up cities spitting them out and making them look different that's what's been going on around the world everywhere and much of that anger that you can feel that has been directed at one tech company in particular one that is West more than $35000000000.00 is a. Little hideaways consuls and a clown. And a Familia every m.v. And allows people to rent rooms flats or entire houses to other people it's the California company more than a decade old credited with disrupting the high tech industry in much the same way that companies such as Lyft disrupted the taxi industry the cost of an abbey and they can be quite a compared to your average high tower and it's been so successful is rapidly spread all around the world so I assume that if you go on air b.n. B. You'll find plenty of places to stay in x. Are here yes if you search for exhaust here on ebay and be hundreds of results turn up. But to understand why some residents that is so upset about the platform let's hear again from task the south start on a case to be had for Matiya many families they have like a spare house or a 2nd car that they can rent so many in family as they started to see this as a possibility of a small income as a solution to the economic problems in the same time there were like investors that they started to buy houses in the center of Athens to buy them cheap because the big brother was in trouble so it was easy to find caused by small prices Greece was particularly hard hit by the economic crisis which began more than a decade a guy that put pressure on families and some 10 to a b. And b. As a way to make some extra money on the site but that's not all in $20.00 setting the Greek government trying to kickstart the country's economy created cycle code and visas for wealthy foreign as if they invested more than $275000.00 in property and they get to 5 residence permits which because Greece is a member of the European Union would give them access to the European market right so that's why you had all these investors suddenly buying houses in x r Yes and often tending them into Abyan bays so there is factors combined to drive up the demand for $5000.00 houses and exotica his tassels again the last 2 years we see that events going on and especially in exciting because it is in the center of the city and because of the stories that you know and 3rd so we can see that is more difficult for young people and they specifically young students you know rectified houses and excited and say families who can't afford higher rents a forced to move out to cheaper areas and this generally in the long term you know like it will produce reckon about the center in this city that we do but at the end of the programs are so simple but they're saying the culture of the city and in the atmosphere of the city. Feeling of resentment against be is very clear when you walk around excited I'm thinking of a particular street you were when where if you looked on the pavement you saw the words less be in be more t.n.t. Spray painted there and if you looked up you also saw this black ban a tie between a tree and a lamb paste was the message air b.n. B. Supporters go higher you are targets while that sounds like more than dislike it sounds threatening not just on one occasion last month and identified attack as spray paint the doors of the fast and destroy the door locks and the statement posted online the surprise perpetrators right Instagram tourists the cops won't save you you're not welcome here and you're not safe here landlord your door is next. These attacks are meant to send a message and the truth is that unfortunately this message sticks Ok so threatening language vandalism sounds like it could escalate. Have there been actual physical attacks on tourists None that we're aware of but the intimidation is worrying at the ambiance. And tourney rents out a number of properties here in exile here I met him in one of the new flats he's for feverishly as dust on the federal fan it's Appollo dot board around the. Order frontin use properties are listed on Ebay m.b. So he's very aware of people's anger around here I bought displays we have now all about Dr d. Most everywhere and I still do that don't read because I was afraid of this I said let's wait to see what happens they don't have rights to tell me what I do with my property be if they will see prayer flags when their flags that were selling for 3000 euros they could go and buy the kind of tell me what to do until I knew what is a bank affixing is until he says he lost his job during the crisis these days he describes himself as an unaccustomed weight in Ammar kissed landlord yet we have me write a full in the bank a tent and a kiss to fats but he doesn't show the visa many of the radical groups around here this would do it to survive with a b.s. Because they went so high that the people like I Will Survive I cannot find a job so I had to survive. If the people that are lazy if they don't want to war they got to complain about their prices because the prices went down because of the crises now they waved a budget save for what it was before the crisis why they didn't complain about the crisis. Wasn't Chinese suggesting that is that prices haven't actually risen they've just gone back to what they were before the crisis now there's no official data to back up that theory but we found academic research suggesting that since 2016 rents have gone up by about 30 percent and yet while at b.m.p. You may have to. Threat to the status quo is also allowed people like continue to make a living when jobs are hard to come by. Just because there's one party in this story that we haven't heard from yet the tourists what did they think of all this as I walked around exhaust here I met a few visit is somewhat disappointed about how hits the whole area had tend out to be others were just amazed by the amount of political graffiti the perhaps the most interesting of all was Emily from Cyprus we've seen so many signs saying like every m.b.a. Is you know well. How does that make you feel like. Yeah I like it honestly we stayed in a b. And b. And I feel kind of bad like that would kind of contributing to people not being able to pay their own rent would it make you ever reconsider where you stated he came to visit again. Yeah but I probably still go down in the air b.n. B. Records if you're going to just affordability we all be in be what they had to say about the situation in exile here and the accusations many residents have made against them they sent us a statement where they said while guests using air b.n. B. Account for just 7 percent of visitors to Greece they boosted the Greek economy by 1200000000 euros last year alone a more than half of hosts globally who keep up to $0.97 of every euro they charge say the additional income helps them afford their homes and they added We take local concerns seriously and we will continue working with the government to promote sustainable people powered travel the makes Greek communities stronger exile here is a pretty unique place in Greece a bastion of radical politics but the challenge is that it's facing a similar to those faces by a number of cities around the world how often if we had about cities entire neighborhoods supposedly losing their cars. Characters I slowly become more affluent maybe Phyllis is a natural for things that city's a living organisms that change and evolve or maybe field such change needs to be stopped at all costs which have the politics one thing is for sure it's the feature of us cities that we're talking about here and chances are you see on Instagram. That's it for today you've been listening to b.b.c. Trending with me Mike Wendling our reporter was Jessica Bateman and our producer Marco Silva if you like to get in touch with us about anything you heard today on the program to send me an e-mail by e-mail Michael dot Wendling w e n d l i n g at b.b.c. Dot seo dot u.k. Will be back next week the usual time thanks for listening. The b.c. World Service and now sporting witness with me Ian Williams in this episode we go back to 987 and the 1st Rugby World Cup hosted by New Zealand and Australia 8 years before the game turned professional the All Blacks were crowned champions and for one member of the team for back John Gallagher It was the high points of an unlikely adventure that took him to the other side of the world was it Saturday the 20th of June 987 and nearly 50000 fans are making their way into Eden Park in for the 1st ever Rugby World Cup final between New Zealand and friends that's when the nerves really stop when you're actually in the trenches and I am so listen and I'm so pinching myself since I have managed to get to the situation and put so much pressure. As you can probably tell from his accent John Gallagher had only arrived in New Zealand 3 years before going from English club player to 1st choice full back for the All Blacks after a sort of 5 or 6 week campaign and after the journey of been through I was exhausted but happy to state I did the deed deed whether it be anybody's guess. Born in London to Irish parents becoming a world champion for New Zealand was a long way from Gallagher's mind as a child certainly when it came to rugby or we did was play football or wants to be a professional footballer I was an Arsenal fan still. More showed. To me was get used to rugby but up some of the 6 in the 17 and actually started growing a bit bigger a saucer into a lot more but it was good that the teenage Gallagher found himself playing club rugby for London Irish but it was an invitation to take an injured team mates place playing. In New Zealand in 1984 that was to change his life. Looking for an adventure the whole idea was awesome to go to one. Club for 6 months didn't quite work but stayed bit longer it just so happened the Gallagher's coach at wrong the time I was former New Zealand fullback Clive Curry he also found himself facing currents all blacks on a weekly basis but in a team that was very much amateur We have 2 eyes who works in the bank with have placement Farman doctors lawyers pilots and it's brilliant I think that's one of the things about amateurism it was fantastic that you me all these people from different walks of life I don't know. Gallagher initially worked as a laborer before extending his 6 month stay and finding a place with the police force in Wellington alive he was British his form Led to talk of a 1st call up for the All Blacks in my 1st year I got my passport stamped as permanent resident and then after permanent residency you think horrify I was working there I was living there was paying taxes there and because I hadn't played for any national before that I was eligible now playing for a provincial Wellington side that had swept all before them in the national championship in 1986 Gallacher did indeed make the New Zealand squad 1st of all it's very humbling from a celebrations last about so 10 or 15 minutes and then you are absolutely petrified because you know there's this legacy this shirt that I'm going to inherit but you just know that if there's an expectancy The eager to perform. Was his 1st challenge though was mastering the Haka the Maori war dolls performed by the All Blacks before every game. Got to do with the actions not to do with words but I just found it quite difficult to put the words actions and together skipper Wayne Buck Shelford had a plan tomorrow night he said I'll be up front and we'll have a present you stand in the middle of the Christian right behind me don't worry about anybody else but just do. It so slowly got better to me 41 sums to get it to his confession was. By the time the Rugby World Cup started on the 22nd of May 987 Gallagher had made the fullback spot his own for the opening match interest however wasn't what you might have expected. 3 top kick off it's nothing against his will impossible to pass to open then about 50000 people about 20000 people turned. You know what you're the lunchtime I but the game will always be remembered for Joan Cohen's fans has to trust me so I don't repeat for she the whole Italian side I I was after beating the Italians 70 points to 6 New Zealand scored another 70 points to beat Fiji Gallagher scored 4 tries John has some things I do. I have it was nice it was very nice I got lots of all the sleep I kept passing it so it's. Nice to self. Score it Gallagher also started the quarter final against Scotland and the semifinal against Wales ahead of the final the players return to all cleaned for the 1st time since their opening win over Italy I nail to speak last autumn hotel the news is full of it t.v. Cameras everywhere then we've realised how much the country was now behind us and then added a bit more pressure on the morning of the 1st ever World Cup final Gallagher and his team mates boarded the bus that would take them to Eden Park to face France it was hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of he's even supporters outside the hotel never ever experience that before. But there was a car horns to see in this paper on the street why even with all blacks banners and stuff like that I believe the fear they all those opened is no one has done the inaugural World Cup road in providing this magnificent stage of Eden Park. The 2nd and final Cup not just the 24th meeting between New Zealand and from then of course the tunnel of them lined up with my absolutely full back hero who Serge Blanco and such banks are next to me and he put his. In the in the tunnel and he says good luck so the next the next 2 minutes thank you Serge knows my 1st Isn't this pretty and then we did the haka and then as soon as a kind look at us was fun and Grant was already to get the game going I thought the final failed to live up to the hype just 3 points were scored in the 1st half then to run the drop goal was very big it is very Thank You Thank You Thank You The sun was coming out but we had drizzly rain we had one of those old greasy mites of bowls and so it was a Can Jews if it's a free flowing rugby so it was a bit of a nervy affair 3 2nd half tries quickly put the game beyond France's reach a surprise given their impressive performance in the semis against Australia the one criticism of the French is that they were always found it hard to back up fantastic victories and I century sticking up for a World Cup final but I think they did find it hard just to get to that same level again a French try with 2 minutes to go was mere consolation New Zealand were crowned rugby's 1st world champions there were 29.29 directly for one by the end of the market and the All Black complete more than your you know you were out there you would be. Pure relief pure relief I wouldn't say I was overjoyed I wouldn't say I always rated really excited I just felt thankful for that job done since I finished all the crab ran on the pitch the amateur guy was always very close and spectators you know we've been hugged by the crowd as we walk in off of the pitch that's a lasting memory Gallagher celebrated that nights and into Sunday but remarkably was back at work as a policeman on Monday an example of rugby's true amateur status in all he would play $41.00 times for the All Blacks never losing and was voted international player of the Year in 1990 that same year he moved back to England to play in the professional sports of rugby league I would love to have straighter of union play professional but as I was getting old. 25 and my profile was getting higher and higher but my income wasn't reflected in my profile it was a white cup call for world rugby rugby union would only give up its amateur status in 1995 Gallagher speaking to me it Williams for this episode of sporting witness. 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