minister viktor orban ran a carefully orchestrated campaign. he commands the biggest majority of any e.u. leader. his party is almost certain to win a certain landslide. >> when viktor orban was elected four years ago he signalled change, particularly after eight years of left-wing conservatives. his critics accuse him of introducing right-wing policies and making hungary an autocratic state. >> the former prime minister, leader of the left-wing coalition is a big critic. >> you have to decide if you want to be for the people or the government. i go for the people. the government has to be controlled, not the people. >> viktor orban's sway over the media and rewriting the constitution to strengthsen state power has raised concerns in europe, with boroughsless accusing -- brussels accusing them of failing democratic standard. >> the ruling party has brought down unemployment rates by forcing people into communal labour labo labour. atilla is a sound engineer. >> i don't earn enough for a living. >> he now swoops the streets. viktor orban may hav

support for viktor orban, grows. >> during the day voter turn out was high. >> hungary - the opposition is not strong enough. they have what i call charisma. that is a very, very strong feature in his - i mean, in the whole viktor orban phenomenon. >> the party will rule hungary for another four years, a dominant force in european politics. >> nine patients and a caretaker have been killed in a fire at a nursing home near piako city near chile. they were locked in their rooms and couldn't escape. neighbours rescued three others from the blaze. >> costa rica has a new president. opposition candidate louie solece won. the result was expected as they won a viable draft-out. the national liberation front was so far behind the polls they gave up their campaign. >> biotechnology company in bangladesh created a genetically modified correspondent resistant to pests. environmentalists are worried about the safety of the product. >> this plan could change the life of farmers. it's bangladesh's first genetically modified crop much scientists are distributing the plants made from genes developed by

why has it not been able to launch a serious threat to viktor orban? harley because they are racked by scandal. the vice president of the socialist party is in custody under suspicion of not claiming a lot of assets on his tax returns. they also found he has a fake passport. now the person who arranged that passport gave the lease all the other information. there's lots of money in bank accounts all over the place. all over europe, tens of millions of euros. >> we're running out of time. this extreme right, this jobbik party you were talking about, that party is expected to get 20% of the vote. should neighbors the alarmed by that? >> that is a trend that unfortunately is happening all over europe. look at what has happened in france. how do you appease the people who want to vote for people like that? it is difficult. >> it is very difficult. thank you. >> the people of afghanistan head to the polls this weekend to elect a new president and it is important step in their transition to a democracy. >> hamid karzai is said to be the first man in the entr

exit polls predicted a clear lead for the governing party led by prime minister viktor orban. for most hungarians, the result was little more than a foregone conclusion. the only question was whether he would secure a 2/3 majority, enabling further constitutional changes. hope there will be a big turn out the government can do a more effective job. the size of the popular consensus matters. if there are a lot of voters, the new government can begin with white bread support. -- whidespread support. popular ass remained with many hungarians for cutting income taxes and utility prices. most voters do not seem bothered by his government's constitutional changes, which have place greater restrictions on the media and the legal system. many do not trust the center-left opposition to do a better job. survey showed the alliance trailing behind the conservatives. the far right party is forecast to take as much as 20% of the vote. tough anti-foreigner rhetoric has alarmed many in hungary's large jewish community. fear ofers in budapest further erosion of democracy. >> i think the far ri

garion people say and viktor orban would remain at the head of the table for four years but that's notnecessarily news that would cause celebration in brussels you know mr all but it's not against hungary you have not the right to say that that these people here are fighting against hungary an interest. victor is a politician that doesn't deserve any respect. to infringement against what we are defending here is hungary and democracy or been has faced criticism for writing the constitution without consultation and cracking down on the state media that like him or not isn't going anywhere anytime soon in fact with two thirds of the electorate behind him or been has the highest approval rating of any leader the center right leaders unwillingness to bend the knees to brussels has to find his first term there are issues on which congress completely happy to go along with what brussels suggests but there are particular issues where hunger says we have a national interest here that's no different from any other member state he lost or french. britain's. an identical answer at the same time h

against what we are defining here democracy prime minister viktor orban a third term despite being branded a power abusing autocrat by brussels we try to find out the secret to his popularity. rallies break out across the u.k. against a known as the bedroom tax which critics say is pushing. into poverty. in the morning this is international with the twenty four hours a day in eastern ukraine protesters have stormed government buildings in three major cities mass demonstrations against the country's new leadership started peacefully on sunday but quickly escalated many locals see their government as illegitimate and in the morning greater autonomy for their regions of course reports. it seems that the tensions escalate chain in eastern ukraine indeed where protesters in the police three major cities protesters who say they do not recognize this foresees in kiev and they do not consider them as the judgment and legal power off the country governmental buildings these are regional government buildings in the city of donetsk and hulk of and the whole faceoff ukraine's national security in the

garion firebrand viktor orbán gets more than forty five percent of the vote in the nation's parliamentaryelection after the break we'll tell you what makes him so popular among the country's citizens but a handful of brussels. and . the. economic ups and downs in the final months stay the. night and the rest because i think you will be if we. choose your language clearly we can we know if you're going to. choose that consensus you could. choose the opinions that you think are a cool. choose the stories that in your little choose be access to. seventeen minutes past the hour an onslaught by rebel forces on the small syrian town of moscow to urge the u.n. security council to investigate the area mostly populated by armenian christians hundreds of whom have had to flee to safety a kind of flags were raised over orthodox churches initial reports claim at least eighty seven leaders were killed after militants crossed the border from turkey the deaths haven't been verified though a campaign service on whether with a hash tag save a sob drive responses from celebrities with armenian backgrounds

critical prime minister viktor orban and his right wing party are tipped to win let's review some of the highs and lows of his reign up till now well many are unhappy about his government's tightening of its grip on state media it's banned election campaigns via platforms other than state controlled outlets and there were controversial constitutional amendments to limiting the power of the country's top court what critics say these could have curtailed civil liberties and show democracy also to reduce the budget deficit to below the ease required three percent or been hike taxes in the banking energy in telecom sectors but there's been no praise too for some of his policies or been claims credit for reviving the economy hungary's repaid an emergency loan it's pulled itself out of recession and beaten down inflation he is it taking on the foreign energy firms did him a lot of favors too especially as this led to cuts in household utility bills and that's not all or one also won over many of us slashing income tax and he succeeded in reducing the stubborn unemployment rate which now st

it does seem that the current prime minister viktor orban will be returned to that post now he hasn't always the best relationship with the european union despite hungry of course being slap bang right in the center of europe brussels and budapest haven't always gotten on particularly there was an incident where by mr obama's policy rewrote the country's constitution without consulting anybody that upset people in brussels despite all of east very popular here in hungary has to be the highest approval rating of any new leader but it's one of the challenges that are coming up against them particularly in missile lection we've seen me put it all party your pick come into focus now they are regarded by some as being quite paul right they certainly have a tough policy on immigration never expected to take around twenty percent of today's vote so with vick still looking set to be returned yet again. prime minister there seem that hungry will continue to although geographically be right at the center of europe be on the outside when it comes to european union politics . for us a four stroke

so with the reelection of viktor orban as prime minister it seems hungry will continue its somewhat. docs relationship with the new and not just blindly to brussels. hungary. still ahead in the program forget the snow siberia is home to something much more glittering. gold. plus two. sixty. six dollars in its contract. to build a. mission to teach me. only. course you are true to national the u.k.'s unpopular bedroom tax has given sleepless nights to many hard up families who've been out protesting on the streets . snapshot there the thousands that rallied over the weekend against a welfare reform that saved many cut off from vital benefits because they didn't have a spare bedroom in their homes the government says the law which came into force a year ago has reduced overcrowding but campaign is it's actually pushed people into poverty parties polyploidy reports next the number of brits desperately trying to keep a roof over their heads. with homeownership in the u.k. at a twenty five year low renting is now the norm for nine and a half million brits but an increasing number of tenan

president viktor orban is expected to win another term.igh stabilized financing and cut gas bills. the opposition accused him of changing the constitution, and nationalist policies scare away foreign investors. >> good sunday morning to you. i'm meteorologist eboni deon. strong to severe storms have been rumbling across the plains. i want to show you into parts of texas where we are watching a cluster of storms. there's warnings in place, in addition to a severe thunderstorm watch pt it will remain in effect until 2:30, stretching from east central areas through to louisiana. it's an area in orange where the warning is in place. we have just about another 20 minutes. the storm is moving to the east at around 40 miles per hour. with it you can't expect blinding down pours and winds. maybe small hail. the threat is not just for parts of eastern texas, it stretches all the way in to the western panhandles. that will clood later today. heavy rainfall will be widespread. you can see we have persistent showers and storms from mississippi, jackso

deviation from also doxie within its own community let's say are the current government in hungary a viktor orban i mean slight deviation is already condemned with extraordinary vehemence in many of the liberal outlets russia on the other hand is essentially arguing that country should be allowed to maintain their own forms of government and develop their in their own particular ways it is maintain friendships with countries that have different domestic systems like such as cuba. or in venezuela and but it's a it is nonetheless pursued a market capitalist way forward so it's the west that is now increasingly been driven by its own kind of etiologies and the russians were showing themselves to be rather pragmatic. adaptable people you know dimitri is looking into safavian western meeting coming out of western capitals it seems so self-defeating because russia in the in the west have a lot of commonalities i mean we go through history literature music eccentric cetera they were not so different but you know it because russia will not fall in line with the western what i call the washington consensu