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Today, a childhood dream almost achieved for our correspondent in Brazil during a trip into

the fast disappearing Amazon rainforest.

An old solution to a familiar problem in Berlin.

Are Pre-fab Communist era flats the answer to the city's housing shortage, were on the remote

Yemeni island of Socotra, far from the war on the mainland, and go for an early

morning swim off the shores of Senegal.

Hungary's nationalist, populist Prime Minister Victor Orbán is clear on his vision for the European Union.

The Hungarian objective, he said, is to have in each and every single

institution a majority of forces that reject migration when last year the

European Parliament voted to recommend punishing Hungary

for violations of EU norms and values he didn't seem to care. In fact with European

Parliament elections approaching in May he's working with like-minded

leaders to reshape the entire political bloc. He's proving to be one of Europe's most

successful and influential populists which led Stephen Sakha on a journey

to assess the power of urbanism.

Victor Orban doesn't do subtlety.

I know this because I've been to his home village a short drive from Budapest.

Felchut, population 1800, has become a potent symbol of the Hungarian Prime Minister's vanity and the shameless merger of his own interests with those of the state.

Exhibit A is the now notorious railway to nowhere built as a pet project on the Prime Minister's orders

in 2016.

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