the coronavirus it's the 1st parliamentary poll in the country since incumbent president abraham boubacar party won a majority in 2013. the hungary's prime minister viktor orban will seek an open ended extension to a state of emergency today in his country's fight against the coronavirus pandemic hungry has just begun a 2 week lockdown and extending that law would give the government the power to pass any decrees it says are necessary to manage the outbreak but opposition parties and e.u. institutions fear the move could effectively give on a blank check to clamp down on civil rights and democracy. are joining us now correspondent fanny for xara she is in budapest the funny now we seen several world leaders introducing emergency powers tell us more though about the situation in hungary and why this particular bill is so controversial. well as you just mentioned karl is an open ended extension hence once it passes through this problem and here behind me which is pretty much a foregone conclusion today since the government has a 2 thirds majority in the parliament once it's passed the parli

over the coronavirus the 1st parliamentary poll in the country since incumbent president ybor heem boubacar kiters party won a majority in 2013. hungary's prime minister. will seek an open ended extension to a state of emergency today in his country's fight against a virus pandemic hungry has just begun a 2 week long down and extending the law would give the government the power to pass any decrees it says are necessary to manage the outbreak but opposition parties and e.u. institutions fear the move could effectively give a blank check to clamp down on civil rights and democracy. well joining me now outside the parliament in budapest is correspondent funny funny we've seen several world leaders introducing these sorts of emergency powers but this one this has critics worried to some referring to this even as a power grab. exactly call this because there's no clear cut off date when it comes to once it's being passed here behind me in the parliament most likely today it will be basically no effect for an indefinite time and this is exactly what gets opposition parties here in hungary but al

and ill equipped a new parliament would allow new budgets to be voted and hold president a brain boubacar cait accountable some have accused him of corruption but with more than 300000 people displaced from their homes continuing attacks by armed groups and a curfew imposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus few have come out to vote either out of fear or frustration with the political system that has failed to bring peace to mali nicholas hawke al-jazeera. that his kids have you with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says that he wants to extend social distancing guidelines from month to try to slow the spread of the corona virus the u.s. has recorded at least 130000 infections trungpa said if the country can limit deaths to want to 200000 the u.s. will have done a good job rob reynolds reports talked about the peak of the. virus coronavirus an epidemic in the united states coming in about 2 weeks i don't think that that is supported by any particular evidence is medical visors including dr anthony fauci who's now become