nick thorpe, bbc news, budapest. on twitter, i'm @nkem|fejika. the weather now with ben rich.se of the first. that is how saturday ended across north yorkshire. overhead as well. of low pressure, which is now pushing its way in from the west. it will strengthen up the winds. and eastward across the uk. so, sunday, a cloudy day. quite a breezy day as well. there will be some rain at times but not all the time. it is by no means a complete washout. of the morning. england and southern scotland through the day. raining all day. into the south—west. very windy across northern ireland. i suspect, and perhaps the highest temperatures. inverness could get to 16 or 17 degrees. morning most places will be dry with some clear spells. temperatures not dropping too far, six or seven or eight degrees. that's about it, as we start the new working week. during monday, not a bad—looking day for many. we'll see spells of sunshine. always more cloud and a few showers across scotland. in the day. outbreaks of rain here as well. particularly in the late afternoon. the wind is still pretty brisk i

viktor 0rban, but opposition parties are hoping the high turnout will favour them. 0ur correspondent nick thorpest. hejoins us now. nick, as we understand, some of these polling stations are still open, and they can't even begin to count the votes until they've all closed, can they? what seems to be happening is those two polling stations in budapest which had huge queues outside, 3000 people, when the polls was supposed to close, they are closing pretty much as we speak. in the meantime, let polling stations across the country, some of the real votes cast have been counted. there is not a single official or even preliminary result released yet, so people are waiting at the different party headquarters, pretty much onset of books. 0utside the fidesz headquarters, there is a big screen behind me, and behind thatis big screen behind me, and behind that is what is known as budapest as the whale, the fidesz campaign headquarters, so no known results yet and all other parties watching nervously the only indication we have had so far was a leading parliamentarian for fidesz saying that he was sure tha

nick thorpe, bbc news, budapest.al service at a football stadium in soweto for the anti—apartheid campaigner winnie mandela, who died earlier this month. in a moving eulogy, her daughter zenani said it was mama winnie who'd kept nelson mandela's memory alive during his long detention under apartheid. the bbc‘s nomsa maseko was there. there are big crowds here at orlando stadium for winnie madikizela—mandela's final send—off. the government has declared a state funeral for mama winnie. it is complete with a gun salute. president cyril ramaphosa is giving the eulogy. all of these people are from different political parties, but mainly from the governing anc and julius malema's economic freedom fighters. they seem to have put aside their political differences to give mama winnie a send—off she deserves. they're singing liberation songs, and the sound is reverberating through the stadium. most of the songs they are singing about are about mama winnie's resilience and her fight for the liberation of black south africans.

nick thorpe, bbc news, budapest.om exhaustion as he was set to win a gold medal at the commonwealth games in australia. callu m commonwealth games in australia. callum hawkins was almost two minutes ahead when he fell, hitting his head on a barrier. he was talking when he was helped into an ambulance. a scottish team spokesman said there were no major concerns about his condition at this stage. the map on was eventually won by the defending champion, mike shelley of australia. —— marathon. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter — i'm at nkem ifejika. the weather now with ben rich. hello there. if scenes like these have left you wanting more spring warmth and sunshine, well, i have to say, the second half of the weekend probably won't live up to the promise of the first. that is how saturday ended across north yorkshire. orkney shrouded in a bit of low cloud but some blue skies overhead as well. sunday does look a little bit different because of this area of low pressure, which is now pushing

nick thorpe. officials say north korea has accepted the trump administration's demand that denuclearisation be on the agenda when the leaders of the two countries meet. pyongyang has already given such an assurance in initial talks with south korea — but according to the reuters news agency — this is the first time it's given this guarantee with washington. church services have been held in canada following the deaths of 15 young ice hockey players in a bus crash. prime ministerjustin trudeau will attend a national vigil in the coming hours at the hockey rink where they played in their home town in the province of saskatchewan police in germany have arrested six people, over an alleged plot to carry out what's described as a "violent crime," at the berlin half marathon. the german newspaper, die welt, say the accused has links to anis amri, who was behind the truck attack that killed 12 people at a christmas market in berlin in 2016. in golf, in the past few minutes, patrick reed has won the us ma

nick thorpe, bbc news, budapest.chool girls were kidnapped by the jihadist group boko haram, their parents are renewing calls for their release. more than 100 of the chibok girls are still missing. nigeria's president says disagreements within the militant group have led to setbacks in negotiations, but he insists his government would not give up. lebo diseko has more. it's a road no parent would ever wa nt to it's a road no parent would ever want to walk. four years since their children were kidnapped by boko haram, mothers, fathers and the community in chibok marched to demand action. truly our people are traumatised, especially the mothers. we are suffering for sin, we are looking for our children, we never see it, we cry, cry, cry, we never see it, we cry, cry, cry, we never see our children. in april, 2014, islamist militants abducted more than 200 girls from their school in chibok in the north—east of nigeria. some have since been released, but more than 100 have still not been returned. one journalist with lin

that voter turnout will be the highest in any hungarian election for 15 years. 0ur correspondent nick thorpe'sy weather as we can see, probably encouraging that. a pretty important election? very much so, yes. just a note on the turnout. 42% by one o'clock here, well up on previous yea rs, o'clock here, well up on previous years, so we o'clock here, well up on previous years, so we might end up with something like 70%. the reason that is important is on the whole viktor 0rban and his fidesz party have been very much appealing in the past weeks to their core supporters, pushing those issues that believe are very popular, things like keeping migrants out of hungary, maintaining hungary's national sovereignty, fighting for a kind of european union in which national sovereignty, the national parliament, maintain or even win back a lot of their power. the opposition, fighting on a very different wicket, as it were, so $0011 different wicket, as it were, so soon after the sports news, arguing about emigration, all the young hungarians and middle—aged hungarians and middle—aged hungarians leaving the

but a surprise by—election win for the opposition two months ago electrified the campaign, as nick thorpeput hungary on the map. viktor 0rban can still pull the map. viktor 0rban can still pull the crowd. at 5a he has been in politics all of his adult life and opinion polls suggest he could win his third victory in a row. he has based his campaign around a single theme, national sovereignty, defending hungary and europe from the perils of globalisation and immigration. translation: there are those who wa nt translation: there are those who want us to hand our country over to foreigners, coming from other continents, who do not speak our language, who do not respect our culture, our laws or way of life. people who want to replace what is oui’s people who want to replace what is ours with what is theirs. viktor 0rban‘s fidesz party faces an extremely diverse opposition. the opposition can only win if they unite to defeat the fidesz party. peter marki—zay is the poster boy of the opposition, he scored a surprise victory in a by—election in february and now to as the country supporting indepe

consecutive term in office. but critics attack him as a racist and an authoritarian. 0ur correspondent nick thorpethis morning. nick, what will it mean for europe if he wins again? trying to reshape europe in his own image. image. more concentrated, centralised union. union. sort of project, that kind of vision of the eu. of the eu. goes against the mainstream in many ways. ways. certainly germany, france and brussels if he wins again. brussels if he wins again. thanks very much, from hungary, this morning. tour, for family reasons. screenings of his bbc comedy car share. which was filmed before his announcement last december. he went to see it and said it was brilliant. brilliant. happened in the end, but well worth the wait. that's coming your way in may. let's have a look at the front pages. a real mixed bag. as the death toll from gang violence continues to rise. continues to rise. links to islamist extremists —— rands diners. rands diners. stop—and—search methods, leading to a reduction in their number. a reduction in their number. violence we have seen on the streets of london recently. of l

our correspondent nick thorpe's in the hungarian capital budapest and sent us this update.o'clock here, well up on previous yea rs. we o'clock here, well up on previous years. we might end up with something like 70%. the reason that is important is, on the whole, victor aubin and his party have been appearing in the past weeks to their co re appearing in the past weeks to their core supporters, pushing the issues that he thinks are very popular, things like keeping migrants out of hungary, and maintaining their national sovereignty, fighting for a kind of european union in which national sovereignty and the national sovereignty and the national partners maintain or win back a lot of their power. the opposition fighting on a very different platform, arguing about emigration, young hungarians leaving to work in countries like britain and other countries in the eu. also widespread allegations of corruption against this government. we will wait to see when we get the final result how much that has hurt the prime minister and his party in this election. canadian prime ministerju

here's the latest update from nick thorpe in budapest.ch a party going on at the party headquarters. in the last few, viktor orban has claimed victory and said it was a historic victory for his party and also said that they haven't got onto the place where they are heading yet, but they are on the right road to. big celebrations here, a historic third victory. viktor orban himself as being in politics in hungary for 32 yea rs, being in politics in hungary for 32 years, he is the great survivor of the defeat of communism in 1990 and here he is a third victory in a row, his fourth victory in political career. many are looking to them as an example of how this political wave of moving to the right across europe is taking a foothold, especially like hungary, where the main point of conversation was immigration. he began as a liberal, became a centre—right figure and is referred to as a populist or a nationalist leader, so he is symptomatic of this move to the right ina symptomatic of this move to the right in a nationalist direction in europe

nick thorpe reports from budapest.ban, or the beginning of the new radical resista nce beginning of the new radical resistance to his rule. tens of thousands of hungarians marched from the upper house to be parliament to voice their anger with last weekend's lectionary result. they blamed it on the electoral system mr orban and his party built. they blamed it on his domination of the media and they called for a new elections. translation: if we do not fight in a unified way, we will lose this battle. we don't want another 150 yea rs of battle. we don't want another 150 years of oppression. we don't want another era of eastern pressure and we don't want to see another wave of retaliation like in 1848. we the people have to stand up and show our power. what happens next, today, tonight, tomorrow, we don't know yet, but i hope we are writing history right now. but what his opponents protested, the national election committee completed their tally of postal votes. more than 200,000 hungarians in neighbouring countries took

nick thorpe is in budapest for us now outside an election event and has the latest., is this a foregone conclusion? no, it is not a foregone conclusion. i have two contradict you, the polls we re i have two contradict you, the polls were meant to close if you minutes ago but under the hunger in rules, if there are people still in queues, they cannot close and the voting cannot begin until all polling stations are closed. i have heard even at one particular polling station in budapest, the cube is so long that the electoral officers think they may not close for another two hours. we are facing several hours of confusion before it can begin. what are the main issues? we have heard about immigration, in the report, this issue, is that what has dominated this campaign? that is sadly what the governing party that is as party have made their central issue. that single issue, should hungary become a country of immigration, or should it stay as it is a smart a country with very few people from other cultures. it is to not many immigrants want to come to hungary at all, there

nick thorpe is in budapest. why are so many people keen to vote this time?obilised, as we heard in the report, the stakes in this election, the opposition are hoping that big turnout, normally 5 million people vote in a hunt down election, we are talking perhaps of an extra 700,000 taking part. a huge mobilisation campaigns, especially by the opposition, and an attempt to do the same by the governing party. more people voting. this will delay the result. one particular polling station in budapest, there were still 3000 people waiting outside it when the polls closed, those people must be given a chance to vote. in the meantime, the vote has begun at those polling stations which have now closed. when all the stations have finally closed, we will get a sudden results based on about 50 or 60% of the votes actually cast. how clear and how different are the choices presented to voters by the parties? this is a polarised country. as we heard in the report, some people are extremely devoted to viktor orban, here's a saintly figure for them. others are disgusted by

our correspondent nick thorpe's in the hungarian capital budapest. he's at a polling station.al system, but does it look like mr albarn is going to have a successful election? —— victor orban. the opinion polls ahead at giving his party over a0%. the best chance for the opposition parties is for a high turnout and for tactical voting. i have to say the latest figures we are getting are suggesting a very high turnout indeed. at 9am four years ago, the figures were about 9%. this year they are already up to 13% of the electorate by nine o'clock in the morning. a very high turnout. the reason that could favour the opposition is that victor orban has been focusing on the core supporters repeating the messages, keeping out migrants, stressing national sure —— sovereignty. so far, with the hide turnout figures so far in the election, perhaps an upset on the clouds. of course much too early to say. has that issue of migration, has dominated the election? it has dominated from the government's point of view with the prime minister victor orban at rally after rally stressing that this

earlier our correspondent nick thorpe gave us detail from a polling station in the hungarian capitals very high. as you can see behind me, people queueing outside this particular voting station here in the 13th district of budapest. and similar pictures, similar information, coming in from across the country. we know that at nine o'clock this morning already 13% of the hungarian population had voted. that's well up on the 9% four years ago. why this is important is that while mr orban and the fidesz party have been appealing very much to their core supporters, the opposition are hoping that a big turnout would help them in this election to score what would after all be quite a big upset. mr orban's gone into this election as the firm favourite. and i mentioned migration. how big an issue has that been, do you think, in this election? it's been a very big issue for mr orban, the prime minister, and the governing side. they've been stressing that a vote for them is a vote to keep migrants out of hungry, out of europe. opposition parties stressing emigration rather, the hundreds of thou

our correspondent nick thorpe's in the hungarian capital budapest.ay, but certainly we can say at this point is the turnout is very high. as you can see behind, people queueing outside this particular voting station in the 13th district of budapest and similar pictures, similar information from across the country. we know that at nine o'clock this morning, already 13% of the hungarian population had voted, that is well upon 9% from four years ago. why it is important is that while victor orban and his party have been appealing to their core supporters, the opposition are hoping that a big turnout would help them in this election to score what would be quite a big upset. victor orban has gone into the election as the firm favourite. how big an issue has migration been in this? it's been a big issue for the prime minister and the governing side. they have been stressing that a vote for them is a vote to keep migrants out of hungary and europe. opposition party stressing emigration. the hundreds of thousands of hungarians who have left to set a better

favourite to win a third consecutive term, what would be his fourth overall. 0ur correspondent nick thorpe'sus this update. a note on the turnout, 42% by one o'clock here, well up on previous years. heading for a high turnout here for sure. there are queues forming at polling stations here in the capital and across the country. one estimation is that turnout could reach 70%. four years ago it was a 61, 60 2%. reach 70%. four years ago it was a 61,60 2%. one reach 70%. four years ago it was a 61, 60 2%. one should be very careful with these figures, but on the whole, commentators say it would favour the opposition. whether it would favour than enough, or whether it would just prune back mr 0rban's majority, or whether it could just produce a surprise results by the opposition, denying mr 0rban a working majority, it is much too early to say. the former brazilian president, luiz inacio lula da silva, is spending his first night in prison after surrendering himself to police to begin a twelve—year sentence for corruption. lula arrived by helicopter after turning himself in to brazilian police a