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Good morning. Today we're in Serbia to meet carpenters and potters fortified by a glass or two of the strong stuff.

In Zimbabwe, they're feeling the pinch,

but it comes with a rather surprising touch of nostalgia.

In Argentina, too, there are echoes of the past past the ghostly ring of pots and pans

and there are grumbles from the south of France where they're sprucing up their favourite summer sport

and where their strong stuff is now frowned upon.

Earlier this week hundreds of white nationalists from around the US

gathered in Portland, Oregon for a show of strength, a disruptive but ultimately peaceful

march near the city centre. Their statements suggested the supremacist there did not condone

violence. But over recent years white supremacy in America

has been deadly. Attacks on a black church, on a synagogue, and most recently in the

largely Latino American city of El Paso have led to many deaths.

Two years ago an anti-fascist demonstrator was killed at a far-right march in Virginia, and reports

of hate crimes in general are reported by human rights groups to have increased marketly of late.

It's something Ali Macbool, who is in Portland for the rally, has now been reporting on for years.

By now I've had many interactions with white supremacist extremists in America and they usually

end the same way, with a colleague politely suggesting I should step away and leave.

It's hard, for me at least, not to stay and try to talk reason to counter illogical hate-filled assertions. One man from a group

named the Kingdom Identity Ministries in Arkansas told me matter-of-factly that Jews were

the children of Satan. Another at a gathering of the innocuous sounding,

but ultimately repulsive, National Policy Institute,

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