Hungary to avoid US sanctions for importing Russian oil
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🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
US president Donald Trump has announced that Hungary will not have to face sanctions for importing Russian oil, following a White House meeting with Hungary's right-wing prime minister Viktor Orban.
It comes after the US effectively blacklisted two of Russia's largest oil companies last month, threatening sanctions on those who buy from them.
Also in the programme: 10 years after the Paris climate change conference agreed to limit global warming, we'll analyse what has been achieved by the agreement; we'll look at how Tunisian opposition leaders are supporting each other by going on hunger strike; and we'll hear from the woman who took up golf in her 50s and just hit three holes in one in a month.
[Photo shows U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral lunch with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Vice President JD Vance, at the White House in Washington DC on 7 November 2025. Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters]
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming live from London. |
| 0:14.7 | This is Owen Bennett Jones. |
| 0:17.0 | Two people have been killed in the Ukrainian city of Denepro after a Russian drone struck a high-rise residential building there. |
| 0:25.2 | The attack was part of a broader assault overnight on large energy facilities that was throughout the country. |
| 0:31.8 | And hundreds of drones came in 450, according to a Zelensky tweet, as well as missiles. Our diplomatic correspondent, |
| 0:39.8 | James Landale, is in Kiev. So just give us an assessment, James. How widespread is the damage? |
| 0:48.0 | I think certainly the attack was widespread and geographically dispersed. It was definitely a comprehensive structured attack. |
| 0:57.4 | As you say, about 450 unmanned bomber drones, 45 missiles or so. And although the air |
| 1:03.6 | defences got some of them, not all of them were taken down. And that meant that according to |
| 1:09.3 | the authorities, there were attacks on 25 separate |
| 1:13.6 | locations, which is quite a high number. Primarily, we're told, energy infrastructure. The Ukrainians, |
| 1:20.5 | as ever, are quite cautious about giving us precise details and locations for that. But as you say, |
| 1:26.1 | also some residential targets were hit. As you mentioned, |
| 1:30.3 | two people died in that building in NEPRO. And to some extent, it's familiar territory, |
| 1:35.3 | namely the Russians stepping up attacks on energy infrastructure ahead of the winter, because they know that. |
| 1:41.3 | That is a time when, if you have no heating if you have |
| 1:45.5 | no electricity you know the impact is substantial but I think the the sense here in |
| 1:50.7 | Kiev is that there's clearly an attempt by the Russians now to try and target not just |
| 1:54.6 | Ukrainian morale but also its economy going forward in the next few months on the morale point |
| 1:59.9 | is it is it working? |
| 2:01.0 | Is it lowering morale? |
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