and the dark side of doing business in hungary corruption charges mount against prime minister viktor orban and his family we dig deeper. i'm daniel winter and this is your business update it's crunch time for donald trump as members of his own party call for clarity on new steel and alan minium tariffs he says the e.u. has made business almost impossible for us some have dismissed his comments as bluster and a bargain in tactic where they use already announced a hit list of counter tariffs which targets key republican districts plenty of reason then for politicians to take the president's threats not just seriously but personally. so the top republican in congress urged the trumpet ministration to take a more targeted approach to protective tariffs paul ryan's suggestion comes as a number of republicans break ranks with the president's plan to slap sweeping import taxes on steel and aluminum there's clearly abuse occurring clearly there is overcapacity dumping intrinsic being of steel and aluminum by some countries particularly china but i think the smarter way to go is to make it more sur

doing business in hungary corruption charges mounts against prime minister viktor orban and his family. this is your business i'm going to office welcome also don't trump's plans to put tariffs on steel and elam in the i'm within weeks resistance against the trade barriers is growing in the u.s. and even trump's own party in a public confrontation house speaker paul ryan and other influential republican allies of the president on a drum pleaded with him on monday to back away from his threatened types which they fear could spark a dangerous trade war republican congressional leaders even suggested they may attempt to block the terrorist bus trump remains defiant he replied we are not backing down all this comes as the u.s. and mexico are attempting to renegotiate the nuff the trade deal which could also be impacted by the dispute over tariffs. the nafta partners were all smiles in mexico city but then the u.s. repeated its warning it could walk away from the longstanding free trade agreement . as president. we hope for a successful conclusion these talks and we would prefer three way.

are due shortly to vote in a general election polls indicate that the far right prime minister viktor orban will win another sizeable majority in parliament during the election campaign obama presented himself and his feet as party as the guardian insult.

are just shortly to vote in a general election polls indicate that the far right prime minister viktor orban will win another sizeable majority in parliament during the election campaign obama presented himself and his feet as party as the guardian.

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between president trump and latina putin as well if you look at the list you find even hungary where viktor orbánthe prime minister is presenting himself as someone who is very close to mr putin very much kind of on the same wavelength and still have a bit of past expelled one russian diplomat and by that showed where there are real and not the propaganda priorities of one hundred life so i think yes there's quite a lot of this quite a lot of unpleasantness from moscow and frankly if you look at it there was nothing like that ever meted out even to saddam hussein or to the kim family in north korea it is a very very significant diplomatic and symbolic humiliation. cousin gene for negative giving us valuable analysis from moscow elsa knight constantine thank you very much thank you theory of some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the lawyer for detained cattle on separatist leader karla's which more says that his client will never surrender in the fight for independence from spain which is in jail in germany after being detained while he was in transit he's awaiting a

here in hungary and the government is amping up there and time my good rhetoric prime minister viktor orbanas repeatedly claimed that europe is overtaken by migrants and he blames it all on one man george soros. george soros behind darian born investment billionaire makes no secret of his opposition to our bonds government he's been the target of a multimillion dollar ok to compete for months the government heckled soros who lives in the u.s. on huge posters and a negative t.v. ads like this one he struck out on the stove on the menu it asserts that soros is trying to get migrants to europe to advance his own political agenda michaela but i still short of. the conspiracy theory that is now even being challenged in court by human rights organizations like beyond gary in helsinki committee. this is a quest distributor. every single household eight million people in hungary got this and it talks about how human rights groups are. conspiring with george soros and the european institutions the commission particularly to bring my clients to hungary or bonn has even proposed a law in palm and that

and one baryons also head to the polls next month to elect a new parliament prime minister viktor orban and his conservative party will be seeking a third term in power they've been running on a populist anti migration platform their campaign targets us billionaire george soros in particular the eighty seven year old businessman was born in budapest and has spent millions of dollars on mostly left wing projects across hungry orbán has called soros an enemy of the hungary and state and accuses him of helping to orchestrate mass migration into europe last year posters like these you can see right here they went up all over the country this one reading don't let soros have the last laugh now or bonds party is proposing new laws targeting groups funded by sora so what impact is the empty soros rhetoric having on the campaign well our correspondent traveled to budapest to find out. one meal a day is all it's a he can afford he said refugee from afghanistan who's been living in hungary for the past year and he receives no help from the government to lift problem we have nothing but problems h

tens of thousands of people have been attending a rally in hungary with prime minister viktor orban warning the crowds that western europe is succumbing to a migrants invasion. on it will soon leave native or europeans in our state over its recording and had brussels are his and seeing immigrants rhetoric warning that a mass influx of muslims into europe will change the confidence christian culture. who speaking say humvees national holiday which comes three weeks before the election? selling images set for you from other that the arctic circle these all the world famous northern lights and they're moving across the skies. above the northern finish city overland yet me. just before midnight if he described as the best stories since september twenty seventeen this right green and white in the. lights claim is able to make it northern lights also known as aurora borealis are a result of collisions between election. charged particles from the sun. and set into the s. access. explain the science any better than that but they all pretty signing on and. i've size of finland's tonight. now this is

are due shortly to vote in a general election polls indicate that the far right prime minister viktor orban will win another sizeable majority in parliament during the election campaign or been presented himself and his feet as party as the guardians of the hunt garion people as a soggy got. at large rallies the prime minister warned against what he calls the islamization of europe and promise to keep migrants out of the country and that's why hungary has closed down the so-called balkan route by building a fence along its border with serbia they used to be hundreds of thousands of people hoping to cross the border and make their way through hungary to countries like germany now though some four thousand migrants men women and children are still stranded on the border including climbin and frustrate. this makeshift refugee camp on the serbian hungary and border used to be full of people now it's deserted the drastic steps taken by the government to deter the refugees the soldiers and the high fence have had the desired effect at least here in horror gosh. two young men are holding out a man

budapest the demonstrators in the year so-called peace march are supporting the country's president viktor orban ahead of parliamentary elections in three weeks at the same time several smaller opposition on this are being held across the city. back here is the embattled prime minister robert feed so has resigned over his handling of the inquiry into the murder of an investigative journalist just a feat so it was forced to step down after his coalition partners threatened to force a snap election will be replaced by the current deputy prime minister peter pellegrini vacuous government has been plagued by protests since the death of journalist could siac and his fiance were killed as he prepared to publish the results of his investigation into alleged links between top slovak politicians and the italian maffia. he's editor in chief of the slope newspaper s.m.d. welcome to d w so robert feet so stepping down but he's staying in politics is he likely to be investigated either over the corruption allegations or the murders of young could see his fiance. i don't think that he is going to be investiga

between president trump and latina putin as well if you look at the list you find even hungary viktor orbánthe prime minister is presenting himself as someone who is very close to his the blues and very much kind of on the same wavelength and still even bit of bass expelled one russian diplomat then by that showed where there are real and not the propaganda priorities of the hungry lie so i think yes there's quite a lot of that's quite a lot of unpleasantness from moscow and frankly if you look at it there was nothing like that ever meted out even to saddam hussein or to the kim family in north korea it is a very very significant diplomatic and symbolic humiliation. because a team fanatic giving us valuable analysis from moscow tonight constantine thank you very much. but tonight the c.e.o. of facebook mark zuckerberg has reportedly agreed to testify before a u.s. congressional committee it's not yet known when such a hearing would take place reports say sometime in april perhaps earlier today zuckerberg refused an invitation to appear before a british parliamentary committee lawmakers on b

western europe is under a migrant invasion that will soon turn native europeans into a minority viktor orbanwas addressing tens of thousands of supporters three weeks ahead of parliamentary elections he's openly hostile to refugees and asylum seekers and has made anti immigration policies the focus of his campaign for ten. victory is almost inevitable for vladimir putin in russia's presidential election on sunday but there are seven other challenges on the ballots one is reality t.v. star sub czech an opposition candidate widely considered a criminal puppet she's held a rally in moscow and announce she'll create a new liberal party agenda whole reports from moscow. previously at home on russia's reality t.v. screens the one time party girl can send your sob jack turned political party girl challenging vladimir putin for the presidency now must start with biggest threats we need them to stop stealing our freedom and youth to stop stealing our common future nasser's. bullish their audience these days less impressed by bling jewelry and branded clothing more interested in what she can do for ru

brothers of italy the leader of that party spent much of last week in budapest in hungary with viktor orban the hungary and prime minister who's viciously n.c. immigration and these and these groups generally when you talk about putting hundreds of thousands of people back in boats sending them to libya one guy even told about building aqueducts in libya you know i mean you might as well talk about the dire they would be the queen the carthage and you know they were the roman empire it's that level of idiocy because it's completely unachievable but even though he's a laugh at it there are a lot of italians who deeply deeply resent the european union not sharing what they describe as a burden the quota system having failed leaving its lead to look after this problem by themselves and that is a very very powerful sentiment particularly when the economy is in a mess all right lawrence we live in rome thank you very much. now the syrian government says it sees more territory in the rebel held district of eastern after another night of airstrikes and shelling almost six hundred forty people are

more like an opposition party than a member of government it welcome tom garion prime minister viktor orbánan adversary of machall on the refugee question and c.s.u. leaders called for a conservative revolution and needled the s.p.d. . but enjoyed yet sighing the martin show has to show that the ass p.d. can be a reliable kalish and partner and put down its internal droste roots rebellion being involved as. it's rotten of the phrase grassroots rebellion was intended to motivate those in the party who had leadership roles but may have felt they didn't have the strength to exercise them or maybe give us the cruft attention they wanted at that stage the role of the c.s.u. was very counterproductive i never really understood why to be honest it almost made me think the c.s.u. didn't want to be in the coalition the status quo its own east believe it or. pressure was mounting on all sides and from within and without distrust was the order of the day as coalition talks began the principles were tightlipped and you know i don't see mr thank you. last night a preliminary negotiations dragged on and

saudi prince i and like in other parts of europe the big success is pushed under is prime minister viktor orban further to the right. the best friend i got your heyerdahl you took us around at that what i meant to be starstruck. so you friend i got to be a lush on ishmael to moderate a column when i was actually called what i could teach. so in two thousand and fifteen or build a fence to keep the refugees far out of hungary and move many wealth from. other countries across europe quickly followed in the borders were sealed. my. name. this is post fascism says hungary and political scientists bash the time which. i do form of the ideology that can operate within feet markets and democracy. the classic condition that this coming this time from the right it is very successful in which public opinion. accepts. dark there isn't in and then out there's an interior and there's an exterior and even the remaining old left is defending the ins and rejecting the house and in that respect. even the center left is being conquered by this logic basically in economic terms no liberalism on the one hand is ac

and it may have involved nepotism according to the european anti fraud office of prime minister viktor orban son in law was an owner of the company that won the contracts to modernize the street lighting journalists at the investigative news portal direct thirty six looks into the case and need to vora describes the background to the story i was work a program africa as a look for you the problem in this case is that the tenders were manipulated in such a way that only the prime minister's son in law could win them back you have to realize that in hungary and you funds are handed out directly by the government. another case in viktor or buns hometown of felt should involve the much publicized soccer stadium direct thirty six says e.u. funds were fraudulent lee diverted to build the stadium and a nostalgia railway line in the area both construction projects benefited lawrence messer us seen here on the left of the picture he's organs childhood friend the mayor of the village. some of that money is going to leave their friends and relatives of the prime minister is in our circle and then be re

budapest in what they called a peace march it was held in support of the country's prime minister viktor orban had a parliamentary elections in three weeks several smaller opposition rallies also took place. in brazil and identified attackers have shot and killed the leftist member of rio de janeiro's the city council not able franco and her driver were in a car when banning another vehicle opened fire and killed was an expert on police violence and no social work in rio slums. in syria it looks as though the siege of rebel held east into kuta is coming to an end a monitor group says that more than twelve thousand civilians and how leaving the area and crossing into government controlled territory the exodus began after regime forces advanced overnight seizing the eastern half of the key town of how maria seven seven years to the day since the syrian civil war began under the thousands have been killed in that time and the u.n. estimates of fourteen million have been displaced. no adama's it's an activist and journalist living in east and welcome to so well here in the thousands of people are

last twenty four hours even those who were considered to be moscow's friends quote unquote like viktor orban the prime minister of hungary decided to side with the you can expel a russian diplomat probably not very willingly but still that shows you where the priorities of the much trumpeted moscow friends in the e.u. lie in reality so this i repeat is quite a humiliation i think it's actually quite it is awesome for russian foreign policy so given that how is all this being reported inside russia indeed is it being reported. it is although i think that's quite logically it's been overshadowed by the horrible. fire in siberia where dozens of people including children died but it is reported and it is reported by state television which is massively overrepresented as you know here in russia in a very traditional conspiracy theory vein it's not snape two it's not the e.u. that are taking these decisions the nature of the e.u. are just like case of the united states that decided to punish russia because russia has become too strong and too great for the us to stomach this is essentially what's

budapest the demonstrators at the so-called peace march are supporting the country's president viktor orbánahead of the parliamentary elections in three weeks at the same time several smaller opposition rallies are being held across the city. in brazil an identified attackers have shot and killed a leftist member of rio de janeiro city council franco and her driver were in a car with men in another vehicle opened fire franco was an expert on police violence and known for her social work in videos psalms. to syria now where it looks like the siege of rebel held eastern could be coming to an end and monitoring group says that twelve thousand civilians are now leaving the area and crossing over into government controlled territory the exodus began after regime forces advanced overnight seizing the eastern half of the key town of hama. it comes seven years to the day since a violent crackdown by security forces on protests against president bashar al assad beginning the war hundreds of thousands have been killed since and the u.n. estimates fourteen million people have been displaced. many fami

stepped earlier this week thousands of hunger ariens are rallying in support of the prime minister viktor orban out of next month's parliamentary elections or ban is set to give a speech as the country celebrates the anniversary of the eighteen forty eight revolution against the austrian empire the prime minister's party is at odds with the e.u. on his use such as refugees and migration but opinion polls show it's well ahead of its rivals supporters of the main opposition party are also staging a rally. tiny bits of plastic have been found in some of the best selling brands of bottled water researches in new york tested two hundred fifty bottles imported from nine countries and found an average of ten plastic particles per liter each particle is about the width of a human hair they tested samples including every on nestle and aquafina earlier i spoke to molly bingham she's the chief executive of orbit media a u.s. based nonprofit media collective that published the research. basically the science on how consuming micro plastics impacts our bodies is really nascent and the answer to that is stil

thousands of people in hungary are rallying in support of prime minister viktor orban a right wing party ahead of elections next month earlier nationalist pro over and supporters of the so-called peace march through the capital budapest the fifteenth of march is a national holiday in hungary marking the anniversary of the eight hundred forty eight revolution opposition groups are also holding remembrances across the city. one of the largest companies in britain is moving its headquarters from london to watchers and unilever says its decision is not because of pressure you know whether to simplify its structure and rebuff takeover bids the anglo dutch firm makes a number of popular supermarkets and items such as duck so put to rest us and ben and jerry's ice cream sunday gago has more from london. after a year long review the decision now has been made to take the company back to the the corporate headquarters of a company that is back to the netherlands it has previously been headed here in london as well as right to thoughts in the review questions have arisen that some make it more str

and the dark side of doing business in hungary corruption charges mount against prime minister viktor orban and his family we dig deeper. i'm daniel winter and this is your business update it's crunch time for donald trump as members of his own party call for clarity on new steel and alimony and tariffs he says the e.u. has made business almost impossible for us some have dismissed his comments as bluster and a bargain in tactic but they use all.