US exempts Hungary from Russian oil sanctions
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
President Trump grants Hungary a one-year exemption from US sanctions on Russian oil and gas purchases during a visit to the White House by his right wing ally, Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. The sanctions were introduced in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Also: Senators fail to agree a compromise to pay essential federal workers, including air traffic controllers, during the US Government shutdown; more than 200 people have been charged with treason after protests against the disputed election in Tanzania; Nobel Prize-winning American scientist James Watson, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, has died aged 97; and archaeologists have compiled the most detailed map yet of the roads that criss-crossed the Roman Empire from Great Britain to North Africa.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:12.4 | I'm Alex Ritson, and in the early hours of Saturday, the 8th of November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:19.3 | Hungary says it's been given a full and unlimited exemption |
| 0:22.6 | from US sanctions on Russian oil imports. Republican senators failed to overcome the impasse |
| 0:29.2 | overpaying essential federal workers like air traffic controllers during the US government |
| 0:34.2 | shutdown. And the Nobel Prize winning scientist James Watson, who co-discovered |
| 0:39.6 | the structure of DNA, has died at the age of 97. |
| 0:45.9 | Also in this podcast, you know what would be the one stronger there, you know what would be |
| 0:50.0 | the one that's left there because you're too heavy to be lifted out. |
| 0:53.8 | Offshore oil workers are told to lose weight or risk losing their jobs. |
| 1:03.7 | Last month, in a bid to help end the war in Ukraine, President Trump effectively blacklisted |
| 1:09.5 | two of Russia's largest oil companies |
| 1:11.7 | threatening sanctions on those that buy from them. This caused a headache for, among others, |
| 1:17.6 | one of Mr. Trump's closest allies in Europe, the Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban. |
| 1:22.7 | Most of his country's energy imports come from Russia due, he claims, to Hungary being landlocked. |
| 1:29.1 | But following a meeting between the two leaders at the White House, |
| 1:32.4 | it's been confirmed that Budapest has been given a one-year exemption from the sanctions. |
| 1:37.2 | Ahead of the meeting, President Trump gave his reasons why it was something he was considering. |
| 1:42.3 | They don't have sea. They don't have the ports. And so they have a difficult problem. |
| 1:48.2 | But when you look at what's happened with Europe, many of those countries, they don't have those |
| 1:52.3 | problems. And they buy a lot of oil and gas from Russia. And as they know, I'm very disturbed by that. |
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