point them towards guidance. and we really don t want the products getting into the hands of children. how often is the guidance on these things reviewed, and who does it? most of the guidance out there at the moment is actually done by trade associations, like we have done them with the association of convenience stores, and they are updated very regularly and this is such a growing area for retailers and we have to keep on top of the law. we have to make sure all of the guidance out there is correct, so it is available and we don t have any particular guidance from government which is why the industry ourselves have taken it upon us to write the guidance to support retailers and stop underage sales and prevent the noncomplying goods entering the market. , ., , noncomplying goods entering the market. , ., market. does there need to be more uuidance, market. does there need to be more guidance. do market. does there need to be more guidance. do you market. does there need
of freedom notjust in hungary, but across the eu? well, my guest, zsuzsanna szelenyi, was his ally in the early days of the fidesz party. now she is an arch critic. but has orban found a politicalformula illiberal democracy for which his opponents have no answer? zsuzsanna szelenyi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. when you look at your home country, hungary, today, in terms of its politics, its political culture, what do you see? well, hungary is in trouble. this is what i see first. it is diverting for a track where we entered 30 years ago, the western way of life. the generation of politicians which are characterised by fidesz, viktor orban s party, where i started my political career 32 years ago, we thought we are the party of the west. actually, orban, even 15 years ago, mentioned in a speech that fidesz party is the new western generation, and what we see today is everything but that. so that, of course, mak
live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. republicans have criticised president biden over the amount of time it took to shoot down a chinese observation balloon that flew across the united states. china has said shooting down the balloon was an obvious over reaction. the diplomatic fall out is continuing, as warships try to recover the debris. secretary of state antony blinken was due to be in beijing this week, but he postponed the trip after the balloon was discovered. barbara plett usher reports from beijing. for days, this solitary object floated serenely through us airspace, putting a diplomatic crisis onto television screens in real time. was it a harmless weather balloon, as the chinese claimed, or a spy in the sky? moments after it arrived over the atlantic, the us brought an explosive end to the drama. that trail of white vapour you see on the left of the screen is an american fighterjet heading for the balloon. the second vapour trail is fr