is harmful to the rule of law in hungary riot police have been trying to control thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital beautiful yes the crowds are angry about a new so-called slave law passed in parliament last week it allows employers to request as much as four hundred hours of overtime a year without payment for up to three years prime minister victor all bans right wing government says it's an attempt to fix a labor shortage in the growing manufacturing sector and allow workers to earn more those are the headlines inside stories next. hungary's slave labor laws protest says again invents that new legislation which includes forced overtime. is already facing a new sanctions for flouncing rules on democracy how will he deal with growing challenges both at home and the world this is inside story. welcome to inside story. the right wing prime minister of hungary is at the center of yet more controversy they faced unprecedented disciplinary action from the european parliament a few months ago for breaching core democratic values of the e.u. and the streets of budapest packed o

hungary's slave labor laws protest says again invents that new legislation which includes forced overtime. is already facing a new sanctions for flouncing rules on democracy how will he deal with growing challenges both at home and the world this is inside story. welcome to inside story. the right wing prime minister of hungary is at the center of yet more controversy they told faced unprecedented disciplinary action from the european parliament a few months ago for breaching core democratic values of the e.u. on the streets of budapest pots on sunday for another mass protest against new legislation which trade unions opposition students and others all say amount to modern day slavery they're demanding the laws revotes freedom for the media and independence for the. roy hallums house all reports. for the fourth day now protesters have been on the streets of the hunger area the capital budapest recent law changes a brought fouls and people out to denounce prime minister viktor orban his right wing government has been the lone voice i think that this content is growing and with not only ang

this is hungary calling, for the sake of god, the freedom of hungary. >> anthony: the russians had been beaten back for a time, but now they doubled down with a vengeance. pouring tanks and troops and heavy armor back into budapest and brutally, and all too effectively, put down the resistance. help never came. >> vilmos: i mean this, this is a place where a lot of things happened, used to be the avh headquarters. i never shot this before so, this is probably the first time i'm going to get this building shot. >> anthony: so this was the internal secret police. so, if someone came at night -- >> vilmos: yes. >> anthony: -- with a van and you were taken away, you ended up being interrogated here. >> vilmos: yes. >> anthony: secret police headquarters in 1956. the sight of a firefight between snipers on the roof, and their fellow citizens below. >> vilmos: and then the people got into the building, went up there, hauled them, brought them down, and killed them, actually. basically hanged them on the streets. >> anthony: hung them here? >> vilmos: hanged them in front of those streets ther

looks likely to be lost to vegas defeat for hungary's beleaguered liberal forces a pro. as to prime minister viktor orban and his populist nationalist policies or ban has targeted not just free thought and speech but also immigration and foreign n.g.o.s his most recent election campaign was fronted by posters of hungary and born billionaire george soros with claims that soros plans to flood europe with illegal migrants and refugees the sea was founded and is funded by george soros and one of its alumni is government spokesman zoltan kovacs why i now choose to go after this institution that source found and nobody is going after one particular institution as i mentioned to you the higher educational or is that we could do to all universities and institutions operating under but this university is going to find it difficult to function in the future is it probably for the reason that it was privileged and you way that privilege is not going for any other university or higher education institution in this country if not the last nail in the coffin certainly one of many don'

had the refugees in hungary past to the austrian border. the twenty thousand who arrived in munich the first weekend they'd been in hungary. and this game is still going on at this speed is that since. mr cannot always wind up the deal you interview with three unfinished sentences i start a sentence and ask you to complete it. more immigration is good for europe because . i'm not sure if immigration is orderly then it's good for europe but we need the support of the population. given a dangerous attempt by africans to cross the mediterranean to europe could be stopped if. if we could send those who come to us and don't need protection back to their countries of origin swiftly and in the interests of those countries they wouldn't attempt the journey. back to refugees now being drafted is not the migration compact the future compact should consider that. already signed a very very many agreements but the challenge is not to lay down more standards but to implement the ones we already have as it says girl many thanks. thank you. it's like. you

the twenty thousand who arrived in munich the first weekend of being in hungary. this game is still going on. mr canal so i always wind up you know you interview with three unfinished sentences i start a sentence and ask you to complete it. more immigration is good for europe because . i'm not sure if immigration is orderly then it's good for europe but we need the support of the population. to give it dangerous attempts by africans to cross the mediterranean into europe could be stopped if. if we could send those who come to us and don't need protection back to their countries of origin swiftly and in the interests of those countries they wouldn't attend the journey. back to refugees now being drafted is not the migration compact the future of compact should consider that. already signed very very many agreements but the challenge is not to lay down more standards but to implement the ones we already have. as it says gerlach noffs many thanks. thank you. oh hold. music is known as a christmas that's why i'm here at christmas time. i really hope to get into the ch

one of europe's top rated academic institutions says it's being forced to shut down that's after hungary's government refused to license the central european university critics say it's because right wing prime minister viktor orban wants to stop independent thought in the country general reports from the capital but a central europe was not colonized by for close to thirty years the central european university in budapest has dispensed world class degrees to students from more than one hundred countries but it's days in hungary are numbered. the hungaroring government started and all i was campaigning against liberal intellectuals in fact intellectuals far of any stripe. and has been limiting academic freedom in state owned and state run universities for a long time c.e.u. is a private institution of the government's refusal to renew its legal certification means courses are moving to vienna but first by way of a protest campus outside parliament. it's not quite the hungary an uprising all over again but they want people to know that their government is threatening to close a university o

talks one young muslim ready to fight and begin the so-called islamic state also coming up hungary and opposition m.p.'s forcibly removed when they take their anti-government protests to the headquarters of the national broadcaster well the rally reveals a growing discontent with prime minister viktor obama's policy. plus we look back at highlights of sunday's going to sleep not to stuff your pinching the europa league group stage with a perfect record frankfurt continued to impress a host of struggling labor crews. for i'm terry martin good to have you with us we begin in the southern philippines where the island of mindanao is facing another year under martial law after president roh. extended the measure last year morale we city on mindanao was the scene of a five month battle when government troops were deployed to quell an insurgency by militants allied to the so-called islamic state. and more than a thousand people were killed and half a million where this place today murali lies in ruins a team of reporters has just returned from the city with this exclusive report. this force t

now hungary has seen a raft of protests against a new labor law introduced by victor opens government the so-called slave law will allow employers to ask stuff to work up to four hundred extra hours peja of overtime the law comes as a high level of immigration has led to a significant labor shortage in hungary. the shifts along at this metal plant in cash commit in central hungry. works two hours overtime five days a week he gets double pay for it when hungary's new law overtime takes effect his boss will be able to require him to work four hundred extra hours a year. no money isn't everything in life i'd rather be with my family. the plants owner desperately needs new workers to fulfill the orders but qualified staff are hard to find many people have left the area for western europe where wages are higher and he doesn't want to demand workers to do too much overtime as is not good for me because i won't like it the trouble is that these are a. lot of time time so it's makes them better. and they've. not too far away is a plan by german carmaker mercedes spends their own thirty five h

s being thrown out of hungary state broadcaster building. said. they wanted to read a list of demands on national television demands linked to a week of escalating street demonstrations. was was not off the night protestors have returned to the streets there were around ten thousand over the weekend. was that was. that you know much of it's a very good t.v. channel for fairytales they don't broadcast the kind of stories that i would show my children in the future unions and opposition groups organize demonstrations against the new labor law recently approved by prime minister viktor or bans large parliamentary majority the law by critics as the slave law allows employers to our staff to do four hundred hours of overtime pay a year and delay payment for it by up to three months. demonstrators are unhappy with the direction hungary is going and. we don't want to go back to the communist times. what we are experiencing now in hungary wasn't seen during communism. it's level of oppression and corruption. something must be done this cannot go on prime

it's not quite the hungary an uprising all over again but they want people to know that their government is threatening to close a university on european soil for the first time since world war two once this becomes true miscible here it becomes permissible anywhere anywhere in europe anywhere in the west that it would be a catastrophe for hungary and i just don't see what sort of a government would destroy that so why is it so tristrem to them suppose they don't want independent thought they don't want. the use of hangry to be able to assess critically their propaganda so here is a grand european democracy and academic freedom side by side of course in political science would teach that they are mutually dependent on one another but here in hungary they're in mutual decline. the battle to save c.e.u. looks likely to be lost the latest defeat for hungary's beleaguered liberal forces opposed to prime minister viktor orban and his populist nationalist policies or ban has targeted not just free thought and speech but also immigration and foreign n.g.o.s his most recent election campaign was

also war made worse by a brain drain in hungary companies canal demand more overtime and delay payment for years or today to lawmakers against the government's labor reforms trying to take their message to the voters in the airwaves government body guards got in the way but the whole world was watching when it happened i burned off in berlin this is the day. that. we had to watch humiliating scenes in the use of physical force against an elected member of parliament and that means the end of the rule of law in hungary. as a. young . justice would make it so initially because unfortunately the state media symbolizes the dirty and nasty propaganda meant to sing for mason dictatorship that's been created by the government of the one man. and coming up later an exclusive report on the seeds of hate being sold in the war against a so-called islamic state in the philippines. martial law remains in force with soldiers everywhere and we have an advantage because we just blend in with the military cannot easily identify as fighters and know how to use a gun but if the battle happens elsewhere i

this is the day of the news live from berlin hungary and demonstrators deliver another rebuke to their government thousands march in budapest capping a week of protests in the capital they're angry at recent reforms five victory or bombs government including a controversial new labor law also coming up u.s. allies react with shock as defense secretary jim mathis from quits he says america's withdrawal from syria sends the wrong message to america's friends and emboldens its phone. i'm calling aspen welcome to the program people are gathering in the hungary and capital budapest for another night of protest over labor rules and corruption braley is the latest in a string of demonstrations which started last week stoked by a controversial labor reform dubbed the slave long introduced by a minister viktor orban he does r.t. the protests have since come to include in a ray of grievances such as limits on the free press and increasing corruption. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.n. security council has agreed to deploy ceasefire monitors to yemen the council un

growing discontent in hungary to controversial new goals mobilize thousands of anti-government protesters for the fourth time this week we'll ask our correspondent in budapest has picked a whole bunch government on to far. i'm christine one but welcome to the program turkey's foreign minister says u.s. president donald trump told turkish president which of the one that washington is working on extraditing turkey's most wanted man turkey has a long sought the extradition off the muslim cleric that's one of the man on current ses was behind the failed military coup in twenty sixteen and has lived in the united states for almost twenty years he denies any involvement in the coup attempts. foreign minister. who say discussed the matter at the g twenty summits to be close. these guard and. others in this organization eighty four names that we have aggressive united states breaks are they sure what it's like. well last time we met one it's not the president from poll after one that they had been working had there any been reactions to the statements in the us no i'm afraid not to not as of now

what we are experiencing now in hungary wasn't seen during communism. it's level of oppression and corruption. something must be done this cannot go on. the despite the crowd viktor orban remains a popular figure among tongue guerin's but if these protests are anything to go by a vocal section has had enough. let's cross over to journalist stuff on both he's in the hungary in capital but a person who's been covering these protests stuff on our porch our piece there just pointed out that the that the leader of hungary viktor orban is still quite popular he's been in power for eight years he's maintained a pretty clear line in terms of policy why are these protests happening now. i think what really sparked these protests the law that just passed last week into building behind me to it is to parliament building and basically it means debts employee and employer second force employees to work four hundred hours overtime and they will only get paid for it every sewer cheer debt sparky's but since debt time. i think became clear the frustration over the last

s being thrown out of hungary state broadcaster building. said. they wanted to read a list of demands on national television demands linked to a week of escalating street demonstrations. this. was not off the night protesters have returned to the streets there were around ten thousand over the weekend. that the. unions and opposition groups organize demonstrations against a new labor law recently approved by prime minister viktor or bans large parliamentary majority the law by critics as the slave law allows employers to our staff to do four hundred hours of overtime pay a year and delay payment for it by up to three months. demonstrates his are unhappy with the direction hungary is going broke donnie wahlberg is delta prissie itself that is the point but this is coming everything. so. does that problem but we have in this country you know when i was eighteen it was in ninety ninety we decided something got out that. we didn't want this system like this now . prime minister viktor orban and his policies are very popular amongst hungary and yet the

hungary and television as state state television about to have been also riots even during the night and more protests are expected and what i can tell you also is that's a big government has described protesters as a mercenary so if george soros if you entropy still is of course a supporting several human rights groups as well as the central european european university which you said leading to vienna so you know at the moment carries no sign that they want to negotiate but if morse if the protesters keep the momentum going then it may change oh right now what in thirty seconds if you can stefan how much of a threat do the demonstrations posed to the government of prime minister viktor orban. i think if they can keep the momentum and if it was really more thousand sophie full whale participates and it will extend then indeed there is just threats to his power base but it gets it's not going to happen then i think he can stay on but much will depend on what will happen in the coming days and you can the next stay humble and good at pass thank you oh you're welcome the next step is b

growing discontent in hungary to controversial new rules mobilize thousands of anti-government protesters for the fourth time this week the last would have his correspondent has. mentioned gone too far. i'm christine will welcome to the program turkey's foreign minister says u.s. president donald trump told turkish president richard typo to one that washington is working on extraditing turkey's most wanted man tookie has strong source the extradition of a muslim cleric. the man uncourteous sais was behind the failed military coup in two thousand and sixteen and has lived in the united states for almost twenty years he denies any involvement in the coup attempts. foreign minister. and discussed the matter at the g twenty summits two weeks ago. this guy and the. other others in this organization eighty four names that we have aggressive united states drake said are they so weak so i preferred him a. while last time when we met one of. president trump told everyone that they had been working rightful more on the story and i'm joined by the correspondent story and joins in istanbul and stefan

hungary's the president has signed into law unpopular new rules that allow employers to increase workers over time that despite a week of protests in the capital budapest are targeting prime minister viktor orbán and the so-called slave wall our correspondent fun even charge traveled to budapest to find out exactly why demonstrators have been braving freezing temperatures to take their message to the streets. protester symbol the past usually starts at the hung parliament this afternoon i meet a couple of students preparing for an anti or band demonstration. hungary has experienced a wave of protests in recent days and normally of course these young people like gossip are like who come here to the course with square to say. void which means it's enough what exactly is enough well there are certain amount of things that we have experienced the the destruction of health care the destruction of education or the slave law which is going to make people work overtime for and hours if you like the whole society is collapsing around us is suffocating us on all levels unlike past anti-government

in review is not a pretty picture there's a lot not to like four hundred and eighty news outlets in hungary are consolidated all under one roof and the regulators just look the other way activists armed with cameras are documenting the way the american authorities go after undocumented immigrants and. are rhapsody reworked for the social media generation. new year's resolutions are tricky promises of performance can prove difficult to keep but that did not stop facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg valuing at the outset of two thousand and eighteen that this would be the year that he would fix things that his company would start protecting its users from abuse and hate defend them against interference by nation states and bad political actors and make sure as he put it that going on facebook would be time well spent since then multiple controversies and unfavorable news stories including the cambridge. analytic a data breach and the un's report on facebook's role in ethnic cleansing in the in march have exposed some of the pragmatic business calculations the company has made they've also provided

being ejected from hungary state television building what's the situation there right now. well we do know dotson not far from here actually two legislatures were dropped out of the state television building dist morning once again they were trying to handle for a petition in which they demand to for instance free media as well as sent that hungry for instance the european prosecutor's office that's one of the demands and if you one day want a say free media and at least the voice of the people this day would hooted now those. demands were not accepted by the state television. people and they were basically dragged out by the security service not at the moment as we speak. a grot crowd gathering again. that building and i can also tell you here behind me right now this is de palma and and actually the activists who were pushed out to square here days morning as well because this authority said we need to square for a turkish delegation so and there's also a lot of police here behind me so really stepping up the pressure as well on the protesters this morning a tense situati

hungary and so cross the country have taken to the streets to protest against the new law on overtime they say it doesn't solve the country's problem. with eight hundred thousand people having left the country hungry lacks the workers it needs says research a paycheck they call i think discount of low if it really puts an extra burden on the verge it can just facilitate the outflow of the rig force from from hungary that would mean that family owned companies like sultan who gifts firm would have even more trouble finding workers. it's a billion dollar market anted grows by four percent each year artificial christmas trees are becoming more and more popular in the united states they don't wither they don't lose needles and often they come already decorated full of tinsel and lights only thing is they don't spread to that christmassy sent a culture war is raging and only time will tell which side comes out on top. for many families picking out a tree is an integra part of the holiday celebration christmas isn't christmas without a real tree you think says it all watering it every day i

thousands out on the streets in hungary protesting against prime minister viktor orban and calling labor reforms slave law all. day on the outskirts of the many poor city of. song on tuesday and cuban filmmakers push boundaries despite the challenge of censorship. a president accused of war crimes has become the first arab leader to visit syrian president bashar assad in damascus since the beginning of the war nearly eighty years ago say media code sudan's president omar al bashir expressing his hope that syria will recover its important role in the region as soon as possible syria was expelled from the arabic shortly after war broke out in twenty levon the assad government has been accused by the un and rights groups of committing multiple war crimes and it's not just sudan several other countries have recently indicated they may be willing to normalize relations with the syrian government in early october president assad gave his first interview to a go face newspaper since twenty levon he told the kuwaiti paper that western and delegations had already begun work to resume diplomatic a

thousands out on the streets in hungary protesting against prime minister viktor orban and calling a labor of former slaves. and hitches its economic fortunes to a giant dam that's been more than forty years in the making. of president accused of war crimes has become the first arab leader to visit syrian president bashar assad in damascus since the beginning of the war nearly eight years ago state media quite sudan's president omar al bashir expressing his hope that syria will recover its important role in the region as soon as possible syria was expelled from the arab league shortly after war broke out and twenty eleven the assad government has been accused by the un and rights groups of committing multiple war crimes and it's not just stood on several arab countries of recently indicated they may be willing to normalize relations with the syrian government in october president assad gave his first interview to a gulf based newspaper since twenty eleven he told the kuwaiti paper that western and arab delegations had already begun work to resume diplomatic and economic ties just a w

and radio stations magazines newspapers including all of hungary's regional newspapers all handed over by their owners as charitable donations free of charge the political pitch for this is that newspapers a struggling economically so consolidation will help them to survive but many of the previously independent outlets that been handed over were struggling because the government was stopping them of advertising revenues which enabled the prime minister's allies to buy them on the cheap and here's the kicker although the government has blocked media mergers before on competition grounds or ban has decreed that this conglomerate not be investigated by the competition authority because the merger is of national strategic importance among the questions that this raises that is what's the effect going to be on news content in hungary and what political opposition exists there to this move if any observer say this is about politics and cost cutting second and that hunger ariens we'll be seeing more shared content. and less diversity in their journalism the opposition socialist party says it

people across hungary have taken to the streets to protest against the new law on overtime which they refer to as the slave law they say it doesn't solve the country's problems with some eight hundred thousand people having left the country hungary lacks the workers it needs says political analyst peter critical i think discussing the flow if it really puts an extra burden on the verger as it can just facile it date the outflow of developed force from from hungary that means that family owned companies like sultan who gets his firm would have even more trouble finding workers especially if they drive them away with forced overtime. these rural women are undergoing training to become solar engineers they come from mexico indonesia and kenya. their course at the barefoot college in india lasts for six months they're learning to install and maintain solar panels and to make solar powered lamps naomi and don't go comes from a kenyan village without electricity. a light to my comment we all know that darkness is not the best so bringing light to the community is home big achievement. many

hungary security guards have been filmed and forcibly removing ipas. this is a wave of e-type government protests gripping the country. they are protesting new labor legislation. this has happened since viktor orban came to power in 2010. theresa may intends to hold a palminteri vote on her brexit deal. she briefed of the house of commons and she warned against holding a seven -- second referendum on brexit. she suspended the vote on her brexit deal last week. >> i make no apology. i make no apology for standing up for the interests of this house and the interests of our whole united kingdom. >> our correspondent is on the story for us in london. good evening to you. the prime minister's house she has shot down the option of a second referendum for good. is that the end of it russian mark -- and o -- end of it? >> the end of it is only after 200 days. she try to shut it down and shut down other avenues to have something like this indicated vote. when people in the house of parliament -- like norway, with a like a hard brexit? she shut everything down a

anger over what's been described as a slave law has been bringing thousands of people on to hungary and straits in the past week the legislation allows companies to make employees work more of the time and delay payment for it robin forrester walker reports from budapest hungary at christmas time with more than two percent average growth low taxation it's an attractive place to come and spend your money. hungry economic model depends a lot on german car manufacturing and twenty seventeen it made up twenty nine percent of industrial output soon a billion dollar b.m.w. plants will provide thousands of jobs in the east but there's a problem a shortage of skilled workers. the government hopes its new labor law will fix that allowing over time of more than four hundred hours a year but that has angered the working hunger areas more than eighty percent according to recent polls opposed to legislation that will make them have to work all opposition groups of united in protest from the left and the right calling it a slave law. andries government says that's not the case the hungary and regulat

hungary has seen the biggest demonstration of public discontent there since right wing prime minister effector orbán came to power in twenty ten to fifteen thousand people braved freezing temperatures in the capital budapest for the fourth rally in a week or protesting against new labor legislation that opposition groups are calling a slave law. was whoever does not jump is victor are banned they chant hungary's prime minister apart among this coalition of opposition all day sunday thousands from the greens to the far right are united and. fed up with what they see is their government creeping authoritarianism and the thick of the smoke bombs tear gas and clashes desperate voices plead for calm. was do not do not through why are you throwing he shouts. others point the finger at the police i want to see that these protesters are here for you to for you and you and you for all of you. is the outrage was sparked by a rowdy parliamentary session last week with viktor or bans government taking over control of a judicial system that has until now been independent and weakening employment

and hungary they voted against this agreement what were their arguments. there's the u.s. and hungary who both voted against the un compact on refugees and against the un compact on migrants it was the us hungary and about a dozen other countries that not only did not vote but maybe staind or have not endorsed it their objections basically stem from what you mentioned the beginning saying why exactly do we need both of these things they're saying that it imposes obligations on to them. and some point will claim that the un is trying to tell them how to run their borders impinging on their sovereignty and the biggest sticking point was basically of them saying the u.n. is trying to get them to treat migrants the same way they treat refugees to extend the same privileges and rights that refugees have now remember refugees go from one country to another to claim asylum and with that claim of a silent comes certain rights the right to stay. the rights of basically have their case heard migrants are not necessarily the same they might cross the border illegally they're not mayb

what we are experiencing now in hungary wasn't seen during communism. it's level of oppression and corruption. something must be done this cannot go on. despite the crowd viktor orban remains a popular figure among gay reasons but if these protests are ready to go by a vocal section has had enough. or we're going to take a look at the world of surfing for a moment the surf was up in hawaii during the season ending event in the world surfing championship brazilian surfer gabrielle medina beat australian julian wilson in the pipe masters final to take home the sport's biggest problem with waves reaching more than two metres high but in a remained calm and scored on all his runs but to capture the crowd it took perfection the brazilian delivered. in front of thousands of all lookers matina and that it a perfect ten after serving this to flawlessly and he knew it just nailed it this is but in this second world surfing championship title the first came back in twenty four. almost because here was some business and some reaction here on the continent to the b