entrepreneur george soros ended last year with the critical institution forced out of hungary. i m not going to waste time trying to figure out what is in the mind of the man who runs this country just go ask him don t ask me what i will say is this. hunger ariens should ask themselves who benefits here the hungry and government says replacing the country s academy of sciences has clear benefits for research projects that receive public funding but critics say the move to replace it with an institution controlled by the prime minister benefits one person most of all the orbán. or more of the story let s cross over to stefan he joins us from budapest a fun 1st of all tell us why viktor orban government wants to do away with the academy of sciences. which well they say they really want to do what he s best 40
country and there are a few g. crisis similar to dance of syria and iraq a. new protest parties are hoping to challenge the political elite some in lebanon are sick of corruption and divisive religious politics but it seems unlikely that there are enough of them to challenge the overall outcome. of the story let s cross over the bench she s in beirut she s director of the highly both foundations middle east office there thanks for joining us this morning the projections show that hezbollah and its allies are set to win over half the seats in parliament why have they done so well in this election. well you know they have been able to mobilize in a much better way than there are plans and mobilizing that is not only convincing voters by what they have to offer that it also tight here is social control over their own rights records tighter social control over their electorate will tell us more about