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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let me share with you what actually has happened. to hungary has been exempt all along. japan has been exempt. so what the americans i was i was in i was active, buy it reasonable. now it's music to my ears. if i can buy some from some source and i can buy minister. let's get back to the point about the shadow no, not at all. let me tell you. let me just tell you. to the wrong argumentation. we do not use fleets. we issue tenders at the point of importation. we want to import x amount of oil global tender. whoever can supply it delivered at our port. before february 2022, we imported 0.2% of oil from russia today. today, it went up. but even in those last two years, sometimes iraq was selling more. hemisphere, then there is need for that oil. does not arise. it's interesting. of the economist magazine. you know what the economist described, you know what the economist described your relationship with russia as a faustian pact between mr modi and president putin. i believe president putin is invited to come to delhi very soon, isn't he? well, i think the quad leaders will

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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so i think here there really is a sense of real in hungary, where the sisters are originally from. theurundi. burundi cut ties with rwanda last year, accusing it of sheltering rebels who attacked its territory two years ago. up on food and essentials, while others are rushing developments from nairobi. just looking at the past 30 years or so when we have had eastern region of the congo but most notably the m23 rebel and that has been disputed, across eastern congo, so this is culminating biggest city of goma, the products can be marketed, as our reporter, ben king explains. they are much less popular than vapes, but tobacco companies in your local supermarket. products on their stores. but tobacco advertising was banned more than 20 it is disappointing that tobacco companies defines a tobacco product as something which is heated tobacco products. as they do not involve combustion, but they involve the use of tobacco so they are more harmful than vapes. in terms of the impact in helping people to stop back in 2018, the conservative government wrote to one international, saying the adver

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

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

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

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 welcome the trump administration's assault on usaidritarians 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 does really important democracy work,

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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

supporters of viktor orban, the right wing leader of hungary and a darling of pro-trump conservatives, who led usaid during the biden administration for trying to import american values into their country. why is elon musk so against the importing of american values, at least as long as they include democracy in europe? >> well, for him, this is. >> you know, if you look at what. >> he. >> says publicly ■abou about. >> usaid. this is this. >> is just, you know, to him about kind. >> of rank corruption. i don't think he's. >> necessarily seeing. >> this as a way to kind. >> of ally himself with. >> rightward movements, though. >> you're correct. of course. they are sort of celebrating. >> what elon is doing, you. >> know. >> generally covering musk, what you see on the internet in terms of how he describes his motivations. is pretty honest. and you can take that for how it's for any direction you would like. but, you know, elon. >> is kind of seeing. >> information online that. >> you. >> know. >> that he thinks. >> suggests that. >> usaid is. rife with corruption. >> and, you know, th

you know, when orban did a very similar thing in hungary, it's worth considering that in order to reallyyear, and he had an enormous advantage in the political arena. he had a much bigger lead. his party had a lot more control over the legislature in order to execute that. republicans don't have that kind of control right now. what they basically have is, you know, musk has provided a lot of space. they've in some cases, they've gone a little bit further than even project 2025 proposed things that they left on the cutting room floor they feel comfortable to do now. but as you noted, a lot of these things are so deeply unpopular, and there's such a thin margin that when the rubber meets the road and the politics come into question, you start to see the need to walk back, compromise, adapt or adjust to reality. and in a way, this is where i think it's worth, you know, just having a little bit of a horizon view, both in terms of how bad it could get, but also the reality. as long as we continue to be wise and smart and, you know, stiffen our spines and not give them more power than they hav

in hungary, there are people who show up for protests, but not enough to topple the regime. a lot of people just stay home because they don't want to get on the wrong side of the government. because the government decides where the money goes and where it doesn't go. because they don't want to be subject to an arrest wasn't. we're not there yet. we weren't. -- we aren't. we aren't. but we have never had a series of developments like we have had over the past two weeks that pose such a significant threat to our democracy. and so the reason we are on the floor tonight, the reason you feel this urgency from our side of the aisle and from the american public is that we used to think that we were in this together, republicans and democrats, but really we've always had a difference on this philosophy on where wealth and power accumulates. i think republicans believed in the trickledown, they have not believed as much in supporting the middle class with medicaid, medicare, and the affordable care act. and if that's what's going on, then the country will survive. but if there's a se

as we have watched other democ democracies all around the world, as we watched countries like hungarylide away from democracy, a key facet of that slide, engineered by a would-be autocrat is the seizure and control of information. it's obvious why you would want to do that. if you can control information, then you can make sure that the dominant narrative is your spin and you can suppress any criticism. already one of the nation's biggest information platforms, twitter, is effectively an organ of the white house. donald trump announced that he wanted to take a 50% ownership stake using taxpayer dollars in tiktok, maybe the most inbe flungsal of mrat -- influential in platforms today. he has apparently cut deals with the owners of other platforms, most notably the ceo of facebook, right after the election came down to mar-a-lago and trump bragged that facebook started to do what he wanted, stop fact checking all of the lies that get put online by trump supporters, and trump said, yeah, he probably did that because i threatened him. he was probably worried i was going to do something to

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the sisters, originally from hungary, had lived in scotland for ten years. police say there were no apparent suspicious circumstances and enquiries are ongoing and the alcohol duty freeze is over and consumers face a double tax hit. from today, duties on alcohol will rise by 3.6% in line with inflation, with wine and spirits now taxed based on strength, distillers warn that rising costs and taxes could lead to even fewer pub sales , hitting even fewer pub sales, hitting treasury revenues. labour is facing criticism for the move, with reform uk saying it will leave a nasty taste in the mouth. pubs have already struggled. last year, 83% reported falling profits while costs soared. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to nana. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> good afternoon and welcome to your with me. i'm nana akua. we're live on tv, online and on digital radio. this is dup news. we are britain's news channel coming up. trade tariff wars are

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