donald well let's go down to this i mean this is the ultimate conspiracy subject some might say george soros some people have said the it's true that the semitism here think that's what soros that is really going to affect there are some out help the remain vote in overturned democracy the saurus is hunger an american he's not british he doesn't live in britain he doesn't go to britain he has no democratic mandate in britain what so ever he's got a house here in chelsea i imagine he spends no more than ninety days a year here because after that he is tax status would be affected he's a very rich man he's a billionaire as you said and frankly what's it got to do with him what we do in this country he's talking about being tema cratty he thinks the referendum was not democratic he wants a second referendum they're for. to try and wipe out the first referendum so if the first referendum wasn't democratic how comes the second one is going to be different because it's his money involved he's already given a hundred thousand pounds we think probably another four hundred thousand pounds ask the gro

separate sources say george soros and a chinese company are among investors that placed the orders. how does this match expectations we had? >> sourced said they were targeting a valuation of $100 billion and ended up getting about half of that valuation, $54 billion, the reasons complex. the markets are certainly rocky, the trade tensions have been challenging. they wanted to raise some money out of the mainland domestic market through the china depository receipts which did not work out partly because regulations are complicated. no caps on has done that successfully and they were not able to pursue that at the same time they did the hong kong ipo. the fundamental reason is they never really persuaded investors

and we still have a very serious debate the international network which is led and financed by george soros in the name you might know and the or watchers might know was as well we have a very open and a very serious debate with him as the hungary and government has a very strong anti in my policy we made it very clear that it is only osce hungary and who can make a decision. to come to hungary it is only us hungry areas to make a decision on the veto we will not live together we don't want. neither the european union the already united nations to force us to to you why it's people in our country whom we do not want to invite we made it very clear that protection of our border and guaranteeing the security of our citizens is the number one priority for us and george soros and his network is totally against this. concept against this strategy he would like to in the wide millions of migrants to europe on an annual basis he basically want to get rid of the phenomenon of of nation states so this is a very open very open conflict and confrontation between us and we have to see that that the sou

they help people seek asylum prime minister viktor orban blames hungary an american businessman george soros for encouraging mass migration to europe sorest denies this. leaders from ten e.u. nations will meet in brussels on sunday to try to sort out divisions on immigration comes ahead of an e.u. summit on thursday on overhauling the block's asylum system the issue is threatening to split german chancellor angela merkel's government she's under growing pressure to reach a deal that would allow germany to turn back asylum seekers who have registered in another e.u. country dominic cain has more from berlin. in calling an unofficial e.u. summit of eight member states the president of the european commission is seeking to find a way to bring member states together who deal with as a sort of front line of of immigration the people trying to claim asylum the point here is that you have the germans the austrians the french and other countries all seeking some form of accommodation to try to reduce the tension that has come in the immigration crisis at the same time in hungary you have the governm

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efforts by k lives mat per and criminal justice groups and even with help from billionaires like george soros steve jobs' widow, the progressive challenrs for example for district attorney races largely lost. what happened? >> theyid. we still have a run-off in contra costa so there's one outstanding hope of the races that were targeted by george soros. ayu know, i think that this was in some ws perhaps an overreach by these groups. these are national groups tcaha in. you know, they targeted nancy o'malley in alameda. she is a democrat with the support of jerer brown and o folks that pushed criminal justice reform. so i think there were some schisms within that left progressive community who pushed a lot of the things we have seen statewide, and i do think in some ways it was the first shot. li think we wil expect to see it come back and more challenges and perhaps better, stronger cans. >> yeah, i think it is something you will see kind of slowly progress over time against districtttorneys. look, d.a.'s can push back and we saw it with nancy o'malley in the closing t weeks o campaign. she wa

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american financier billionaire financier george soros they would subvert not just this country's fundamental christian values but also mr all bands own political philosophy ideology he calls it in liberal democracy all of this of course had to be stopped first there was a border built border fence built in two thousand and fifteen and now they're going after those n.g.o.s pro-democracy pro human rights pro rule of law by implication as well anti or ban is my report. where once there was an open border of the european union now there's an electrified fence migrants and refugees still trying to enter europe on welcome in hungary alone slide when in parliamentary elections in april has encouraged prime minister viktor orban and his feet as party to go further despite protests by the e.u. and local activist groups a new law is being debated that would criminalize any supporting clued in legal advice given to asylum seekers who do make it through access to justice and due process their fundamental values and this legislation specifically targets that saying asylum seekers shouldn't be helped beca

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we underestimate who george soros is. the open society organization has already spent $15 billion in campaigning into to receive $20 billion. this is an organized attempt to undermine nationstates, to undermine democracy and fundamentally change the makeup demographically of the european continent, and the courage to stand up against him but if you criticize george soros his media friends accuses you of being anti-semite, quite extraordinary and i feel soros in many ways is the biggest danger to the western world. >> and a very deep pocket. when we return, a look at the media's coverage of donald trump's handling of the separation policy and criticism from an unlikely source, that story is next. mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. liberty stands with you. liberty mutual insurance. they have businesses to run they have passions to pursue how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters ship packages all the amazing services of the post office right on your computer get a 4 wee

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help people seek asylum the prime minister viktor orban blames on guerin american businessman george soros for encouraging mass migration to europe but he denies that leaders from ten e.u. nations will meet in brussels on sunday to try to sort out divisions on immigration that comes ahead of a summit on thursday on overhauling the blocks asylum system issues threatening to split the german chancellor angela merkel's government she's under growing pressure to reach a deal that would allow germany to turn back asylum seekers registered in another european union country. well those are the headlines that is continues as era after the war in october much of that sort. of. london october the fifth nine hundred seventy three. shortly after midnight the phone rings in the home of. an israeli case officer handling and egyptian spy they simply called the source. it is the source himself his message was simple i need to meet the boss. within minutes shrub has called television to wake his superior speed samir director of israel's intelligence service. in just a few hours samir is heading for the bri

they want to talk about these bills and hungry that have been pastor called the stop george soros billst report says. this is out of out of reuters budapest, saying, "the hamitic care and people rightfully expect the government to use all means necessary to combat illegal immigration in the activities that ate it that comes from their interior minister. "the stop soro build makes the organization of illegal immigration a criminal offense, use these posters up hungry from becoming a country of immigrants." wow. >> what soro has done, he is actively encouraging people to come across the mediterranean, to flood europe, and okay, angela merkel played the useful idiot in many ways in helping this to happen, i think we underestimate who george soros is. the open society fork organization that yves pons has already spent $15 million in campaigning, and is due to receive another $20 billion. this is an organized attempt on a huge scale to undermine nation-states, to undermine democracy, and to fundamentally change the makeup, demographically come off the whole of the european continent. thank g

of starbucks michael bloomberg and george soros are pouring in money meanwhile the former starbucks top boss is saying he's deeply worried about the bernie sanders wing of the liberal politics and so many voices within the democratic party are going so far to the left and i ask myself how are we going to pay for all these things in terms of things like single payer or people a spouse in the fact that the government is going to give everyone a job i don't think that's realistic we decided to ask new yorkers what they think should be next for the democrats i think the democrats have to come up with their own ideas of their own agenda and they can't just be a party of persistence and i think all the politicians should start actually wondering what's good for the country as opposed to what's good for themselves. and perhaps we can move the country in the right direction democrat or republican doesn't make a difference to me i don't know if the democrats really need. the democrats just to be clear in getting their message out there now the democrats have made pretty clear that voting for the

of starbucks michael bloomberg and george soros are pouring in money meanwhile the former starbucks top boss is saying he's deeply worried about the bernie sanders way.

of starbucks michael bloomberg and george soros are pouring in money meanwhile the former starbucks top boss is saying he's deeply worried about the bernie sanders wing of the liberal politics as so many voices within the democratic party are going so far to the left and i ask myself how are we going to pay for all these things in terms of things like single payer or people especially the fact that the government is going to give everyone a job i don't think that's realistic we decided to ask new yorkers what they think should be next for the democrats i think the democrats have to come up with their own ideas of their own agenda and they can't just be a party of persistence and i think all the politicians should start actually wondering what's good for the country as opposed to what's good for themselves. and perhaps we can move the country in the right direction democrat or republican doesn't make a difference to me i don't know if the democrats really need. the democrats just to be clear in getting the message out now the democrats have made pretty clear that voting for them is votin

budapest speaks for the open society foundations which was founded by george soros welcome to d w so these laws are known as stop soros why is your founder seen such a threat by the government. this is a political communication product i mean the stock photo shoot legislation and the whole campaign which was conducted by the government. be huge taxpayers' money millions of euros worth pence for on the shore of campaign and creating from him as an enemy of state and this is why. the question is why mr orbán of wanted to distract the attention of the hungarian society from more pressing issues including corruption stories and corruption scandals related to the government party why is hungary so against accepting refugees and migrants. this is again a company product yet see. particularly hungary is not our target country and not a continent for for any kind of immigration even for or for refugees so practically hungary is on the route from from syria to turkey and bought trains to toward the euro and particularly towards direction to germany and their four hundred plays a role in this.

they help people seek asylum prime minister viktor orban blames on guerin american businessman george soros for encouraging mass migration to europe soros denies this. today's world refugee day and the government instead of providing protection have decided to actually not provide protection deny protection and that's the side with the persecutors it starts to persecute you pick even individuals human rights defenders and others who assist asylum seekers i think this is a new low point for hungary today where even lawyers could face criminal prosecution something that has not been heard of since the one nine hundred fifty certainly it's very alarming many aspects of this are i think i read just leaders from ten e.u. nations will meet in brussels on sunday to try to sort out divisions on immigration comes ahead of an e.u. summit on thursday to discuss of a hole in the blocks asylum system issues threatening to split german chancellor angela merkel's government she's under growing pressure to reach a deal that would allow germany to turn back asylum seekers who voted in another e.u. country.

up to a year in prison the right wing hunger and prime minister viktor orban blames financier george soros for encouraging mass migration into europe a claim the hunger in american business magnate nice today's world refugee day and the government instead of providing protection have decided to actually not provide protection deny protection and that's the side with the persecutors it starts to persecute you even individuals human rights defenders and others who assist the salim seekers i think this is a new low point for hungary today where even lawyers could face criminal prosecution something that has not been heard of since the one nine hundred fifty certainly it's very alarming many aspects of this are i think i read just. live from london still ahead. fighter jets hit twenty five time gets in gaza israel says it was a response to hamas rocket attacks on the sides. and the british government agrees to return mayor brown statues stolen from nigeria more than a century ago. how i move very hot sunshine across the middle east my great surprise is here we have still got the shadows just r

brings us to the other great fear that stalks hungary's prime minister the billionaire financier george soros and the network of liberal minded n.g.o.s he supports he made it out. clear what kind of future he thinks of europe he's pro democracy he's probably always been kind of the right kind of democracy in the form of democracy he promotes and his organizations are promoting are very far from real democracy because they rely or would like to relight so-called n.g.o.s that have been founded and financed by the shore and the like minded people the new measures being debated are collectively known as the stop soros bill in anticipation of difficult times the soros funded open society foundations announced last week it was pulling out of hungary that's a loss to free thinking society but a win for one of europe's most liberal governments that now looks i'm a salable and we're having to speak to join a live in budapest a little bit later on they will move on to madagascar where the president has appointed a new prime minister in an attempt to quell the arm wrestling to weeks of protests on the i

billionaire oliver george soros considered to be a philanthropist by some he has been funding non-governmental organizations aid agencies in hungary because he sees it as important to help those who've come to hungary as refugees who are classed as illegal immigrants so as i say you have two approaches on show here the approach of mr audubon he's supported in his in his way by what's called the visit of our group the four countries of central europe who are resolutely opposed to taking in more more immigration. the refugees and then the approach in brussels dominic i'm just going to have to stop you there dominic joining is there from berlin watching some pictures now of donald trump at the white house let's listen in. so you can actually hear the united states president talking there lived enough that we can hear him but i can tell you that there have been reports this afternoon that he may be due to sign some sort of executive order so with a stroke of his pen change the fate of these separates the children and their parents let's have a listen lot of you're going with us so that will be int

george soros said quite rightly that if the eu had properly funded those nations... for the last five years. it's notjust about money, throwing money at the problem and expecting greece and italy to absorb people in dire straits is not enough. europe as a whole has to work together. and then you see hungary doing what it's doing to refugees. the choice europe will have to make is, how are we going to reach the point where we'll shoot those boat people dead? once more grain of hope has been the announcement from the ethiopian government about the border deal struck with eritrea years ago, the reason for the enforced construction in eritrea, 12% of the eritrean population refugees, that is the solution, what are these leaders doing in europe and the west in your view, or are they engaging, in ways of reducing the flow, blocking the flow back at home? they are. who? last week the libyan leaders were in paris, we talked about a package, you say money is not enough but a few... the most appalling refugee camps... and he keeps talking about it, the way he tries to convince

brings us to the other great fear that stalks hungary's prime minister the billionaire financier george soros and the network of liberal minded n.g.o.s he supports the government spokesman explained he made it fairly clear what kind of future he thinks of europe he's pro democracy he's probably. right the kind of democracy in the form of democracy he promotes and his organizations are promoting are very far from real democracy because they rely or would like to relight so-called n.g.o.s that have been founded and financed by the like minded people the new measures are collectively known as the stop soros bill in response to soros funded open society foundations announced last week it was pulling out of hungary that's a loss to free thinking society but a win for one of europe's most illiberal governments that looks increasingly assailable jonah holds al-jazeera beautifulest still to come on. could this former senior u.n. official result. by the miss america competition has had a drastic right kyra. hello again as we look at weather conditions across the strait you can see across southeastern

of starbucks michael bloomberg and george soros are pouring in money meanwhile the former starbucks top boss is saying he's deeply worried about the bernie sanders wing of a liberal politics and so many voices within the democratic party are going so far to the left and i ask myself how are we going to pay for all these things in terms of things like single payer or people spouse in the fact that the government is going to give everyone a job i don't think that's realistic we decided to ask new yorkers what they think should be next for the democrats i think the democrats have to come up with their own ideas of their own agenda and they can't just be a party of resistance and i think all the politicians should start actually wondering what's good for the country as opposed to what's good for themselves and perhaps we can move the country in the right direction democrat or republican doesn't make a difference to me i don't know if the democrats really need a new direction i think the democrats just have to be clear in getting their message out there now the democrats have made pretty cle

brings us to the other great fear that stalks hungary's prime minister the billionaire financier george soros and the network of liberal minded n.g.o.s he supports the government spokesman explained he made it fairly clear what kind of future he thinks of europe he's pro democracy he's probably get it all. right the kind of the moccasin the form of democracy he promotes and his organizations are promoting are very far from real democracy because they rely or would like to relight so-called n.g.o.s that have been founded and financed by the shore and the like minded people. the new measures are collectively known as the stop soros bill in response to soros funded open society foundations announced law.

help people seeking asylum prime minister viktor orban blames hungary an american businessman george soros for encouraging mass migration to europe soros denies that leaders from ten e.u. nations will be meeting in brussels on sunday to try to resolve divisions over immigration it comes ahead of an e.u. summit next thursday to discuss overhauling the blocks asylum system the issue is threatening to split german chancellor angela merkel's coalition government. and those are the headlines that is continues here on al-jazeera al-jazeera world. the. ok but then i looked out of the it was a sign. that the sun was there if it had to go through the sun. a small can have said you can miss him a bit and i am not a success. and i have. and this is so deep down i know it and i'm just not meant to have any fear that. basically what's going to happen to. them as you. would have come in. you couldn't come in here but i wanted to because i have to fact that he they. come in material. a lot like that if one does it and two can. take it. but the husband. and if the windows did behave. has got a fuck them i

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