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00:30Yes, Vice President J.D. Vance is due in Budapest today.
00:33Vance will attend a campaign rally and hold a joint press conference with Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
00:39We'll be bringing you the latest from our reporter on the ground.
00:42Meanwhile, Viktor Orban has held emergency talks after explosives were reportedly found near a pipeline carrying Russian gas to Hungary.
00:50The development comes as his party trails behind in opinion polls ahead of this weekend's vote.
00:55But first, EU Council President Antonio Costa has said targeting civilian infrastructure would be illegal and unacceptable.
01:03His comments follow escalating tensions after US President Donald Trump threatens strikes on Iranian infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz
01:11is not reopened.
01:13Speaking on Truth Social, Donald Trump used foul language saying Tuesday will be Power Plant Day and Bridge Day, all
01:20wrapped up in one in Iran.
01:22There will be nothing like it. Open the Strait or you'll be living in hell.
01:28For the latest, we can now cross over to Doha, where your news correspondent Adel Khalim is standing by for
01:33us this morning.
01:34Good morning, Adel. Thanks so much for joining us.
01:36Look, this Trump deadline is approaching very fast.
01:39But what exactly should we read into here?
01:44Yeah, Maeve, the clock is really ticking now.
01:46We're less than 18 hours away from that 8 p.m.
01:48Washington deadline imposed by US President Donald Trump for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route
01:55that Tehran says is open but closed to its enemies.
01:58Over the Easter weekend, the rhetoric really ramped up.
02:01Trump warned Iran would be, quote, living in hell if a deal was not reached.
02:06Now, Tehran hit back just as strongly.
02:08Speaking to the Associated Press, Iran's culture minister called the U.S. president unstable and delusional, saying his statements aren't
02:14taken seriously.
02:15There was a diplomatic off-ramp where a potential 45-day ceasefire proposal from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey.
02:21But Iran's foreign minister rejected it outright, calling it illogical.
02:24Now, in a lengthy press conference on Monday, President Trump laid out in very stark terms what could happen if
02:30Iran doesn't comply.
02:32Take a listen.
02:33They have a period of, well, till tomorrow at 8 o'clock.
02:38I gave them an extension.
02:40They asked for an extension of seven days, right?
02:42I can tell you they're negotiating, we think, in good faith.
02:46We're giving them till tomorrow, 8 o'clock Eastern time.
02:50And after that, they're going to have no bridges.
02:53They're going to have no power plants.
02:57Stone ages, yeah.
02:59President Donald Trump there.
03:00And beyond his various statements, of course, the South Park's natural gas field has been hit again.
03:06And Gulf countries are also still being targeted, Adele.
03:11That's right.
03:11It's adding real anxiety to the region.
03:13Iran's South Park's petrochemical complex is a critical site, part of the world's largest natural gas reserve, shared with Qatar.
03:21And it's the second time it's been targeted in a few weeks.
03:23But there are also signs of diplomacy.
03:25Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdurrahman Bin Thani received a phone call from Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas al-Rakshi
03:33yesterday.
03:34And speaking to our Euronews colleagues in Dubai, the diplomatic advisor to UAE's president says a ceasefire is not enough
03:39and is calling for a durable security plan.
03:43But with the conflict now in its sixth week, Maeve, and that deadline just hours away, the situation remains extremely
03:50tense.
03:51OK.
03:51Adele Halem, thank you so much for that live update there from Doha.
03:55Now, back here in Europe, the clock is ticking towards the biggest election of the year for the European Union,
04:01taking place this very Sunday in Hungary.
04:03Just a few days ahead of the big day, though, Serbia said.
04:06They found explosives at the Hungarian border, very close to a pipeline, delivering Russian gas to Hungary.
04:13The case evolved fast into a campaign topic in Hungary, with the government pointing fingers at Ukraine and the opposition
04:19calling it a false flag operation.
04:22Our Hungarian correspondent, Sándor Zeros, is here with me this morning in the studio to tell us exactly what is
04:28going on.
04:28Fill us in.
04:29Good morning, Maeve.
04:30Yes, indeed, Sunday morning, the Serbian president, Aleksandr Vucic, announced that two bags of explosives were found close to the
04:38border with Hungary, next to the pipeline, which is called Turkey Stream.
04:42This is a pipeline delivering Russian natural gas to Hungary and to Serbia, and this is a major component of
04:48Hungary's energy supplies.
04:50Now, Viktor Orbán immediately called for a security college meeting, and then he ordered soldiers to guard the pipeline in
04:58Hungary, and he also started to point fingers at Ukraine.
05:03Let's listen to what he said.
05:09Ukraine has been working for years to cut Europe off from Russian energy.
05:12They blew up North Stream, shut down the gas pipeline supplying Hungary, and this year, by closing the Frenchie pipeline,
05:19they placed Hungary under an oil blockade, while the Russian section of the Turk Stream is under continuous military attack.
05:27Ukraine's efforts pose a direct threat to Hungary.
05:29Ukraine's efforts pose a direct threat to Hungary.
05:33Viktor Orbán there.
05:34And Sándor, how is this issue even related to the elections, and how are Hungarians perceiving the claims of Viktor
05:39Orbán?
05:39Well, in fact, you saw what Orbán said.
05:42He is accusing Ukraine.
05:44This is nothing new.
05:45Hungary campaigns against Ukraine since many, many months.
05:49By the way, Ukraine rejected those allegations.
05:52Now, very interesting that the opposition is talking about a false flag operation.
05:57Peter Magyar said that Orbán is using this issue in order to hijack public opinion and to postpone or cancel
06:05the elections.
06:06Now, I have to quote what Peter Magyar said.
06:08Many people suggested that something might accidentally happen in Serbia, possibly involving a gas pipeline one week before the Hungarian
06:16elections.
06:17I want to make it clear that Viktor Orbán will not be able to prevent next Sunday's election, Peter Magyar
06:24said.
06:25In addition to this, two security experts last week already said publicly that something is in the making, a possible
06:32false flag operation.
06:34And one of these experts explicitly mentioned that it could happen in Serbia.
06:40By the way, Serbia is saying that mentioning Ukraine is a disinformation.
06:44They are investigating an illegal migrant who might be involved in this attempt.
06:51OK, Sian Raziros, thank you so much for all those details on what will be a very busy week for
06:55you.
06:56And meanwhile, the Trump administration is pulling out all the stops to support its preferred candidate in these elections.
07:02The U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance will be spending the next two days on the campaign trail with
07:08Viktor Orbán to, quote, celebrate the deep ties between the two countries.
07:12For more on this relationship between President Trump and Viktor Orbán, here's Euronews' correspondent Joltan Zibozegi from Budapest.
07:20Today, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance is arriving in Budapest for an official visit.
07:25But it's hard to tell whether this is really a diplomatic event or more of a campaign stop.
07:31Hungary is heeding into parliamentary election this Sunday.
07:34And for the first time in 16 years, polls shows Viktor Orbán could lose his position as a prime minister.
07:41In these final days, he is doing everything he can to turn the result around.
07:46In recent years, Hungary's government has become increasingly isolated within the EU because it's anti-Ukraine stance and euroskeptic billboard
07:56campaigns.
07:57Orbán is now trying to show that he is not alone, that he still has strong allies.
08:03He often points to his good relationship with powerful leaders all around the world, from Israel to Russia.
08:10But his most important ally is clearly Donald Trump.
08:13Viktor Orbán praised Donald Trump's national security strategy as the most important and interesting document of recent years,
08:22saying it finally recognizes the civilizational crisis Europe faces.
08:27For months, Orbán's party, Fidesz, tried to organize a Hungarian visit for U.S. President in the campaign to publicly
08:35show his support with the sovereignists.
08:38But with all the ongoing international conflicts, Trump hasn't made the trip.
08:42There were rumors for a while that Vice President Wenz will come instead, for example, on CPEC conference, but it
08:50never happened.
08:51The fact that J.D. Wenz is now visiting Hungary just five days before the election sends a clear message.
08:57In Washington, and especially around Trump's circle in Mar-a-Lago, there's a strong preference for Orbán to win a
09:06fifth term.
09:06In earlier speeches, Wenz has even described Orbán as a kind of defender of conservative Christian Europe.
09:14They will meet this afternoon.
09:16But the big question is now whether that kind of support will be enough to help Fidesz close the roughly
09:2320-point gap they are facing in the polls.
09:30Sultan Djibosheggi there reporting for us on J.D. Wenz's trip to Budapest today, which will bring the whole city
09:35to a standstill.
09:36And this trip, of course, is being closely monitored here in Brussels, especially given J.D. Wenz's speech last year
09:42at the Munich Security Conference, where he upset a lot of Europeans.
09:46For more, we can bring in now your news's EU editor, Maria, today.
09:49Good morning.
09:49Good morning.
09:50So, Brussels, watching this very closely.
09:51Well, watching this very closely and the election itself, of course, when you talk to any diplomat in Brussels and
09:58also around the capitals, they'll tell you the Hungarian election is the election to watch this year.
10:03It's the most important, the most consequential.
10:07And obviously, on Sunday, everyone in this town is going to be monitoring those results.
10:11I think at this stage, Brussels is paying attention, but it's also interesting.
10:16We see that the U.S. is really now throwing support behind Orbán, and yet the approach from the European
10:23Union has been the complete opposite, to really do low profile, to not get involved, to not respond, to really
10:30not snap back.
10:31And you saw in those pictures, when you walk around Budapest, the face of Ursula von der Leyen is in
10:35posters, which sort of portray this as a head of the commission that is going to destroy Europe.
10:40And Viktor Orbán is a polar opposite, the man who is going to face her.
10:44And still, we've seen very little from the commission.
10:46We also know and have reported this extensively on Euronews that for months now, the commission has put everything on
10:52hold.
10:53Major decisions on Hungary.
10:55Obviously, legal procedures are still pending.
10:57All of this frozen not to be used in the election.
11:01The one thing, however, that Brussels has been keen on not doing, and it's obviously keeping this as the ace,
11:07really the leverage that they have over the Hungarians, really, truly is the money.
11:12Obviously, we've talked about billions of euros that have been frozen.
11:15Hungary also applied for a loan to spend money, cash into weapons, around 17 billion euros.
11:21That has been frozen.
11:22It's the only country to not have its defense plan approved.
11:25And this idea that nothing will move until the election happens.
11:29The other point also we should note is that when it comes to the relationship now between Brussels and Budapest,
11:34I was there the last time for the election.
11:36Obviously, there's been tensions now playing out for years.
11:39But this time, what really changes is there's a very strong security aspect.
11:43Obviously, this is not just about an ideological clash, about the politics, but really now for a number of member
11:48states, Hungary now is so close to Russia.
11:51The tapes, the leaks, the conversations among the foreign ministers of the two countries, that has now really crossed the
11:57line.
11:57Because now you talk about defense and key security capabilities, and that is now seen really as a red line.
12:03The one thing I would note, just very briefly also, is when you talk to diplomats in Brussels, they tell
12:07you, whichever way this goes, the relationship will have to change.
12:11If Magyar wins, obviously, that's a new government.
12:13If Orban wins, he could lose a lot of seats.
12:16And obviously, that could translate into perhaps a weaker Orban.
12:19So whatever happens on Sunday, something will have to change.
12:22And just briefly, you mentioned Peter Maillat.
12:24How does Brussels view him?
12:25You know, it's an interesting one, because in a way, they have kept a very calculated distance.
12:30Brussels doesn't comment about Peter Magyar.
12:33They've also been low profile on that.
12:34He obviously does not want to get involved in Brussels.
12:37And we've not seen him really in the European institutions.
12:40Because back in Budapest, one of the attack lines from the Orban government is to say,
12:44ultimately, this guy, look, he's just a puppet of Ursula von der Leyen and the political establishment.
12:49What is interesting, however, there's been a number of moves that have been seen in Brussels.
12:53One is the fact that he says he wants to unlock the cash.
12:56If you want to unlock the funding, then it means obviously something is going to have to change in terms
13:00of rule of law.
13:01The fact that he went to Munich Security Conference that was also perceived as, look, this could be a Hungary
13:06within NATO now that becomes less problematic.
13:09And the third, you know, his foreign policy and his advisors around it, they are seen as perhaps more moderate
13:14and more pro-European.
13:15But as I say, it's both an opportunity, but also an enigma and a lot of distance for the time
13:20being.
13:20OK, we'll keep a close eye on it. And you'll, of course, be in Hungary for that very important election.
13:25So do stay tuned to Euronews for that. And keep an eye on Euronews.com for more analysis.
13:29Now, moving on, as the war in Ukraine and the conflicts in the Middle East drag on,
13:34this April marks three years since Sudan's civil war broke out when a power struggle began between two branches of
13:40its armed forces.
13:41For the view from the ground, we spoke to Kristen Davis, the UNHCR ambassador and the American actress best known
13:48for her role as Charlotte in Sex and the City.
13:51She recently visited the East African country with millions on the move and a conflict at risk of spreading.
13:57Kristen Davis started by telling us not to forget about one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent years.
14:03For some reason, media does not seem to want to cover it, which I find really interesting and I can't
14:07explain why.
14:08But I do know that I work with UNHCR. I'm a Goodwill ambassador.
14:13And I knew that the war was ongoing and that many, many people have been displaced.
14:18Twelve million people have been displaced, which is a stunning number, especially because it isn't even something that's being reported
14:25on.
14:26So we just went a few weeks back. I went to South Sudan because I wanted to see for myself
14:30what was happening.
14:32Every time that I have gone on a trip to a refugee camp or a refugee area where people are
14:36crossing from conflicts, like really life or death level conflict,
14:42it's always upsetting, but at the same time, it's also inspiring because the people are so strong.
14:47And in this situation, it's largely women and children and a lot of very, very young children.
14:52And they've had to travel far distances with very, very dangerous situations.
14:57So when they cross the border, they're relieved, but they're also, you know, stressed.
15:01They don't know where they're going to go. They don't know what they're going to do.
15:04They need to find a safe place for their children, just like you or I would feel.
15:08Obviously, they did nothing wrong to make them be a refugee.
15:11They're just trying to keep their family alive.
15:14And many of them told me stories of their husbands being taken out of the house and shot in front
15:18of them.
15:19And do they feel alone? Do they feel like the international community has forgotten about them?
15:22I don't think so. No, I don't think so, because UNHCR is there. We're there.
15:26That is our mandate, to be there for refugees, for people who are displaced.
15:31And we will do everything in our power to be there and to give them life-saving aid right away
15:36in an emergency.
15:38Now, there have been funding cuts, which is pretty upsetting.
15:41I could tell that that was your next question.
15:43This was the first trip that I had made since the funding cuts.
15:46So that was upsetting and depressing also, because I've never been in a situation where we were not able to
15:54give them a hot food, a hot meal, when they have originally arrived to the camps.
16:00That was kind of upsetting.
16:01We had the high-protein biscuits that we were giving to children five and under and to pregnant women.
16:08But I haven't ever been in a situation where we couldn't say, here's your water, here's your tent, here's your
16:14hot meal.
16:14It was just really so deeply troubling after everything that they've been through, after the violence that they've been through,
16:22that we can't feed them a hot meal.
16:24But what is the future for these people?
16:26You described millions of people on the move, millions of people displaced.
16:29Where will these people go?
16:30Obviously, I'm sure they just want to go home.
16:32They do want to go home, and, I mean, one can only hope that some larger forces will intervene that
16:38will bring peace or at least encourage the players to put down their arms and stop the fighting.
16:46The region has obviously been through, you know, many, many, many struggles in the past, which I feel like in
16:53some ways influences the fact that people aren't talking about it in the media.
16:57I think there's some level of fatigue, which is unfortunate because it's still people's lives.
17:03You know, every single country there, and they're very poor countries, but every single country is making a huge effort
17:08to accommodate the people and give them the services that they can give them.
17:13They're very poor countries, again, you know, so you don't think about necessarily that that's where refugees are.
17:20But largely that I think 70 percent of refugees are in really poor countries and they never make it to
17:25Europe or the United States.
17:27You know, most people, I think, have the misperception that that that people are just coming freely.
17:32That's so not the case is I think it's one percent get resettled.
17:35So they're mostly in the poor neighboring countries who can be very, very welcoming, which is hugely important.
17:43You know, they may not have a huge amount of funding for them, but the warmth of the welcome is
17:48powerful.
17:50I think they just want to go home at this point.
17:52And it's so many people that it's hard to even imagine, you know, how they will be resettled into these
17:58new countries that they're in.
17:59But I do think everyone's making a huge effort for that to be a positive experience for them.
18:04And meanwhile, Kristen, the war and the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, it's entering its second month.
18:08It's turned the whole world upside down.
18:11Yeah.
18:11Could we be in this for the long haul, you think?
18:13I hope not.
18:14I hope not.
18:15I really hope not.
18:17It's obviously so deeply, deeply upsetting.
18:20And I was just talking to my UNHCR colleagues and over a million people have been displaced in Lebanon already.
18:28And it's just begun.
18:30So it's deeply, deeply disturbing.
18:32And I hope that people can, you know, find a way to to deescalate.
18:40I mean, this is what we always hope for.
18:43And what would your final message of hope be to our viewers who are tuning in today, feeling very overwhelmed
18:48and stressed about the state of the world?
18:50The world is chaotic right now.
18:51I fully get that.
18:52But I feel that in terms of refugees and displaced people, empathy is more powerful in some ways, even than
19:01funds.
19:01You know, like understanding that they did not cause this, that they they the people who are displaced are not
19:08at fault.
19:09Nothing they did wrong happened that made them be displaced.
19:12Right.
19:12Just having that empathy.
19:13And all of us know someone who's a refugee or the child of a refugee.
19:17You know, there's people around you that you may not even realize are refugees and having some understanding of what
19:24they've been through, being able to maybe just say a kind word to them.
19:28There's so many tiny things you can do that improve the world and that also make you feel better.
19:33I find that for myself.
19:34You know, it's a way for you to feel like, OK, I can make a positive difference in my little
19:39world right now.
19:40And that's something.
19:41OK, Kristen Davis, thank you so much for speaking to us here on your own.
19:44It's so lovely to have you with us.
19:45Thank you for having me.
19:50Kristen Davis there, the American actress and the UNHCR Goodwill ambassador speaking to me earlier.
19:55Well, that brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:58Thank you so much for tuning in, as always.
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