00:00Well an announcement from Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Malone sending shockwaves right across
00:06Europe and you have to remember right now you're seeing a big shift across Europe, Portugal being
00:11the latest for instance to put in place a so-called Birka law, banning face coverings in public spaces,
00:19Malone facing a challenge from a former army general in Italy who set up a new party,
00:25already become the fourth most popular in some polls and Giorgio Malone clearly facing a
00:31challenge. Now she is still leading the most popular party in Italy and she has now made this
00:38major announcement that Italy is going to ban face coverings in schools, they're going to cap the
00:45number of foreign students per class and you can see the quote from Malone that a measure will soon
00:52be presented to a cabinet meeting to legally establish a maximum number of foreign students
00:58per class. She says it will require parents of foreign students facing serious difficulties
01:05integrating into the school system to learn Italian and bans Birkas and kneecaps in schools.
01:13Also saying there that if there is only one child in a class who doesn't speak Italian, that child
01:18will likely be able to learn the language and integrate quickly with the help of classmates
01:23and teachers. However, if the number of children who don't understand the language becomes large
01:27or even the majority, that is no longer integration, it is neglect. And Malone also making the point you
01:34must go to school with your face uncovered and that in Italy no one in the name of a real
01:38or
01:38supposed tradition can decide that a young woman must hide herself. Now as across Europe, big changes
01:46you've seen in Italy in recent years with Malone announcing this policy in a country where you
01:54can see here, the number of pupils who were not citizens in Italy had risen from about 3.5%
02:00and
02:01around 300,000 in 2003-2004 and surging to 11.5% and nearly a million 20 years later. So
02:15yeah,
02:15a major announcement there from Giorgio Malone. Please do let me know though your thoughts on
02:19that in the comments below. Please do whack this video a quick thumbs up and of course as ever,
02:23cheers for watching.
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