with hungary, they were slow to respond. poland did this much earlier. same thing is true with a lot, all sorts of external interventions, the way we interact with countries where the risks are high. these are elected leaders who still early on want the semblance of the democracy. they can be more attuned an attentive. so long as civil society doesn't act, and external actors have been a system within that can take advantage of the policies that are coming externally then better chances of success. the early intervention is important. >> thank you. finally, ambassador. >> i would agree that there are enough tools for e.u. to intervene in case of the radicas political climate, the e.u. is good at that. financial punishment. but remember there was a case, where the first prod call partner came to power, this is what e.u. should do more. in case of the main street partisan and radical, there are many examples. but most important is not about collaboration. there are many models. sweden. they have swedish democrat in power. but not cabinet ministers which is

and kim, you saw that firsthand in hungary. >> absolutely, exactly. hungary. it was poland. it was turkey. it was even russia, which we forget in the early days was all consolidation of power by law. so this is how it happens all over the world in, in venezuela and in ecuador. the leaders there rewrote the constitutions in their first year. so when the leader gets elected and changes the law, many people stand around and say, well, gee, you know, i kind of stand around and say, well, gee, you know, i kind of disagree with this leader, but that's how democracies work and what they need to see is, you know, it's not just any law that these new autocrats are passing. it's laws that actually remove restraints on the executive. and that's the danger signal we're seeing now in the united states. you know, trump is claiming the power to stop all federal funding. does he have that power by law? well, no, but somebody's going to have to tell him no. and the question is whether congress rises to the challenge, whether the courts rise to the challenge. and frankly, the thing i'm alarme

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police scotland have confirmed that the bodies have been found of the two sisters from there no hungarysome patchy rain you can see from the satellite the rest of the day, but something a little bit but if we do see clear skies for any length of time, temperatures in parts of north west scotland could get to minus four. temperatures likely to stay just above freezing where we keep a lot of cloud. a few more breaks in the clouds across parts bit of sunshine. weather front just tries to work its way in from the west front tries to push in from the west. but again, a slightly better chance of seeing some spells of sunshine. it does stay rather cold as we head towards the end of the week. this weather front makes some progress eastwards, but not an awful lot. up a bit to give some spells of sunshine. most of us will remain in some rather cold from the west. live from london. till further notice. out. jeremy bowen. harassment, after calling a metropolitan police officer — stupid and white. the former spanish football chief luis rubiales hello. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu says

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you rightly mentioned, that the kind and that will be good news for those countries countries like hungary slovakia. for countries to spend more. to spend on defence. a lot of western nations have emptied their armouries britain's army is dwindling in size and there is that it could be in quite a difficult position. particularly in terms of missile defence, there is another factor here that is really worrying people, wanting a deal for the united states to buy greenland. initially to her country don't worry, you know, it's not for sale. where president trump has said, "no, i'm serious." in beijing, as well, because it undermines western unity taking what they want. what we're seeing here is stock markets responding to this series of tariff increases, which president trump has announced. not surprising there, and possibly tariffs to be placed on the uk too. and a chaotic ballsed up brexit which satisfied is talking about. it's desperately needed. i mean, ithink, of course, there are people on both sides of the political spectrum here in the uk that have differing views on, of course, brexit

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dealers coming in from a lot of the american states but especially from european and other countries, hungary and australia will be represented, there will be a lot of very interesting dealers, all accredited in manuscript materials, there will be posters from the free speech movement and all sorts of great items. >> i found it difficult to get to san francisco but oakland seems to be more feasible. >> oakland is very accessible, we like the venue because of the 12th street b.a.r.t. stop, and the city has bent over backwards, basically welcoming us, we originally did it in san francisco in the old concourse. >> before we go to the next segment with laura, tell us where you are located. >> just north of berkeley, two suburbs, and i have been involved for about 30 years and i also charity the book club. >> that is great, thank you for being with us, michael, please join us with laura in the next segment as we look at these rare books. >> we continue this wonderful book fair with laura swan, and your bookstore is located? >> i am at walnut creek, swanson books, come visit our bookshop. >> tell u

this is the short version of how viktor orban, the prime minister of hungary, effectively dismantled the news media in his country. this effort was a central pillar of orban's broader project to remake his country as an illiberal democracy. a weakened press made it easier for him to keep secrets, to rewrite reality, to undermine political rivals, to act with impunity, and ultimately to consolidate unchecked power in ways that left the nation and its people worse off. it's a story that is being repeated in eroding democracies all around the world, and it is a story that is being aped right now by the second donald trump presidential term. and this is not yet being treated as one of the things the new trump administration is doing, but they are doing it, and they are using both the federal government and allies outside government to do it. and if the model holds, i expect that what we're going to see is a big spike in defamation cases brought against various media companies, particularly now that so many companies are settling them and paying rather than fighting them. we will see a sy

but even if you look at a country like hungary.. he slowly dismantled the institutions of the state, and he also began to create his own oligarchs. so he changed the rules of the economic system so that it favored just a very few people, and anybody else was left out and found that they couldn't get government contracts, or they were harassed by the system. you know, the you know, once you have a political system where where people aren't treated equally, where the rule of law doesn't hold, where you can't trust courts because courts have been politicized, then you have a system where the leader or the ruler or the ruling party can pick winners and can decide who gets rich and who doesn't. certainly at the highest levels, i mean, and if we if we get to that kind of system, then who knows how it will wind up for the people who think they're buying trump's favor right now? >> we'll soon find out. and thank you so much for joining us tonight i appreciate it. >> thanks. >> thanks. >> we'll be right back. i didn't think someone like me

he wants and our prime is the same way as the prime minister of hungary. certainly not is not we supportive. busy the gradients, uh we survey to the web page where is everything out of cops already from our country in from the cities, from the laser for free. and uh, you know, they gave them a hand and uh, he turns his back on you when we feed to the kids here at school. so we pay for for them for the school hall stuff for everything. and he got the, the, the guess, and then it's uh, cost us a lot. it will be easy for the rest. let us to do what, what do we want about the i don't think they will. busy allow us to do that either so, so great to, to make business with the russians because they're a reliable office and the they always have, have been sold at least this way. but the less that we started to, we don't to the 3 other 100, their s m a, it seems like we are. i mean, but i mean the union, we are shooting voting, the dollar feeds and they don't want to select the and the hungry to, to take the bill away from, from the rest. the fee to easiest way to

syria, and i'm actually with the agencies barton and torres heads about the powers visited budapest, hungary. this of course is a your pin nation which does not tow the line. we know one issues like belgy, b, t or ukraine point to just to erupt in saying o connor red produce an incoming last but not least, we had to which the american tax payers money cannot be used to organize a revolution in georgia. do you remember the canvas training when representatives of the cultural spear were trained to organize a revolution in georgia? us a id, money was used specifically for this. the trump administration stated that american funding, american tax payer money was being used to destabilize the situation in other countries. and to create revolutionary scenarios, we can save time on again, why usa i take pops up very close behind, very often as instability and often violence. becky: of course the question, i won't point this, coincidence become a pass and at what point does a pattern become a strategy? yeah, so you mentioned the strategy strategy requires money. what, what are the numbers we're talki

there on national as politicians in hungary, nations, politicians in poland, nations, politicians, romania to do talk about the historic grievances. this cannot happen. it is cannot happen unless the united states accepts this. and then for the united states, ukraine is to useful a as a battering ram, as a, in a, um, a truck area. you know, a land pointing its, uh, guns at russia, ukraine. what to disappear? what once it goes to poland, one block goes to romania, one. so i go still hungry and other thoughts about gary. if it was a disappear, then the pressure on russia would also disappear. and the united states doesn't want to do that. the night the states would much prefer to have a strong ukraine, constantly making trouble for russia. that's really the project. now let's get the latest on the escalating conflicts in the democratic republic of congo, where m. 23 inside inside were advancing in the east of the country. a wanting that there are disturbing images that had not corpses can be seen lining the streets as alma vehicles rolled into the bottles, city of go. my other rating region

. >> of hungary. >> or turkey, where they. >> never got them out? you can. >> do, but. we've done a. >> big study. >> and. >> we. >> know the seven. >> things you must. >> do. >> and that's. >> what. >> we're working on. >> number one, defend the rule. >> of law. >> that's always what. >> these dictators. >> go for. number two. >> protect elections because that's. >> how you kick them out. >> number three, you have to fight corruption. >> number four. >> protect pluralism. and on and on. there's a set of. seven things. >> and the. >> lawsuits we're bringing i'm. >> planning 100. >> this year. >> 100. >> the lawsuits. >> we're bringing. >> are designed. >> as part of that. and they're starting. >> it's starting. >> to work. >> because you. >> can't do it in the courts of law alone. >> you need the court of public opinion. >> and what did we see this. >> week in parallel. >> with our. >> treasury lawsuit? >> that first. >> treasury case, peaceful protesters. for the first time, starting. >> to show up. >> at the. >> treasury building around the countr

and so, my character, laszlo, essentially comes from war-torn europe, flees hungary, through the horrorst after my grandfather. it was a very specific formality of speech of a man in the '50s, and -- but it was a wonderful chance to honor their story in -- in my own work, and how they -- they've really given me the foundation. all their suffering and hardship has given me the foundation to be, you know, an american actor born in new york city. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and so, i'm really grateful for that -- >> jimmy: yeah. >> -- and try to pay tribute to that. >> jimmy: you just -- but such a great job doing that. but also with the prosthetics, 'cause you age 30 years in this movie. >> yeah. >> jimmy: did a great job with -- >> very -- yeah, i get -- i age 30 years in this. in the making of the movie, too. [ laughter ] but they did apply a lot of -- they had to do a prosthetic procedure. and it's funny, the -- everyone's very busy. it's a -- it's a movie with a a lot of moving pieces. and so, i had a new team of people who i'd never met, and they were removing this apparatus all over me. and t

hungary's dictatorial leader, viktor orban hailed the shutdown.here's how the guardian headlined it. quote, authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of usaid. nicaragua's state media, controlled by the family of the president, declared that trump turned off the faucet for what they labeled terrorists. venezuela's interior minister announced plans to investigate the agency, saying the government's opposition was paid by usaid. but it's not just that authoritarian leaders around the world and dictators around the world are celebrating this move by donald trump. the damage done by shutting this agency is turning out to be an ongoing and now newly serious disaster. when elon musk posted to his hundreds of millions of followers online quote, usaid is a criminal organization that turns out to have had consequences. you know who's been more than happy to pick that up and run with it? check this out. this is from the guardian newspaper's andrew roth today. quote, right wing and autocratic governments have their knives out for usaid, dem

aid agency leaders in russia, hungary and el salvador welcome the trump administration's assault on usaid authoritarians have seen as a threat. we've also, of course, seen the kremlin cheering elon musk at destroying this agency. why do authoritarian leaders hate u.s. aid so much? well, i think for a couple of reasons. they don't like democracy. they want the united states ultimately to fail and our model to fail. and they recognize something that clearly some in the u.s. don't yet recognize, which is how vital u.s. aid is to advancing u.s. interests. >> and american. >> strength resides in. >> the. >> goodwill we buy. >> but also. >> our security resides in our ability. >> to squash that. >> ebola outbreak in uganda, to make sure that those flights that come from kampala don't contain people with ebola who bring that disease elsewhere. so they root against america, they root against democracy, therefore, they root against u.s. aid and. >> are. >> thrilled that. it's the united states government itself that is taking this agency off the field. but the. >> other reason. >> they're cheering

viktor orban from hungary saying the world owes a debt of gratitude to trump. and now there are republicans who say that the power of elon musk's, unaccountable as it is, is a growing concern. >> there have. >> to be guardrails, obviously. >> on on. >> what information he he accesses, but more importantly, what he does with it. >> and more importantly, what he does with it. that's the question. none of these none of these questions are being answered. jeff zeleny is outfront live outside the white house tonight. so, jeff, what is the thinking on musk right now inside the white house? >> well. >> erin, the. >> thinking quite simply. >> is that elon musk is carrying out the president's broader wishes to rein in the size of the government. but the details they often are learning here at the white house, somewhat after the fact. there certainly are not asking permission to go into every single agency. the president told us earlier this week that he has given mr. musk and his group the authority to do this, but specifically a question hanging over all of this is, wh

aid agency leaders in russia, hungary and el salvador welcomed the trump administration's assault on usaid, which many authoritarians have seen as a threat. we've also, of course, seen the kremlin cheering elon musk at destroying this agency. why do authoritarian leaders hate u.s. aid so much? well, i think for a couple of reasons. they don't like democracy. they want the united states ultimately to fail and our model to fail. and they recognize something that clearly some in the u.s. don't yet recognize, which is how vital u.s. >> aid is. >> to advancing u.s. interests. and american strength. resides in the goodwill we buy. but also our security resides in our ability. >> to squash that. >> ebola outbreak in uganda, to make sure that those flights that come from kampala don't contain people with ebola who bring that disease elsewhere. so they root against america, they root against democracy, therefore they root against u.s. aid and are thrilled that it's the united states government itself that is taking this agency off the field. but the other reason they're cheering is that usaid

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. >> hungary. >> hungary. >> all that since becoming prime minister. >> and he's also seen the germannd today he's in brussels meeting eu leaders. never here. kia, come and some work do your job. gb news. 1037. britain's newsroom on gb news. >> so sir keir starmer in brussels today, the first pm to do so since brexit. meeting with all 27 eu leaders. >> calling it a reset. oh, that word makes me have ptsd. a reset between the uk and the eu. >> is this trip necessary? or is the pm cosying up to europe or is this really essential? talks he has. he's also not just not here. he's also known as air miles here. >> that doesn't rhyme though does it? >> no it doesn't. >> no it doesn't. >> well, we're joined now by the host of rational voices, sunil sharma and the former liberal former leader of the liberal democrats. of course, sir vince cable. morning, gentlemen. thank you so much. okay, sunil, let's start with you. does sir keir starmer need to be there? we need to have a decent relationship, don't we? with the eu? >> no. keir starmer does not need to be there. we're not part of the european

have time to go into the details, but i want to emphasize the radicality, if you compared it with hungary, with bolivia, with whatever you want to compare with, it's the complete dismissal of all existing judges, state and federal, high court and low, all of them must go home in two batches. half in 2025 and half in 2027 and you are replacing this with a system of popular elections? i will talk massively, i've been putting these analogies with the state system in the united states. it's not the same at all because you will have here a bunch of names, neve to do political campaign, they are selected by the three powers, the executive, the legislative and the supreme court, and then they have to do this political campaign with the prohibitions to use public money and private money so basically they have nothing, but the social network, whatever. well, and you have a court, and politicians, and i don't have time today to describe, but i will be happy to give it if you want. but this is a -- the complete subordination of these new people that on top can be inspecioused because really, the req

getting more traction politically the last decade in poland, hungary, but also in germany, the unitedstates, france, italy. what is propelling this movement? how do you think we should address it? and china then adds, obviously connected. question what advice can you give us to preserve people's commitment to democracy. now in the thirties? well, it's of utmost importance that we see to it to create safety and security for the people who live in our countries. because when people are afraid that they may lose their job, their social security, that person will not be tolerant towards those who come to that country. it's important that we are successful in our integration policies. i think we have well, we have we we tried to provide language. we tried to provide schooling. but our local authorities come well come up to their the limits of they actually can do when the flows are too big. and we also to strengthen democratic parties and democratic parties have to be seriously addressing the problems that people meet every day we they must not adopt the rhetoric of the right wing parties.