US President Donald Trump says he will consider allowing Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban to buy Russian oil, in an exemption from sanctions aimed at helping to end the Ukraine war.

Speaking on Friday during Orban's visit to the White House, Trump said an allowance might be made because "it's very difficult for him [Orban] to get the oil and gas from other areas".

The comments come after the US effectively blacklisted two of Russia's largest oil companies last month, threatening sanctions on those that buy from them.

Following the meeting, Hungary's foreign minister wrote on X that the US had given Budapest "a full and unlimited exemption from sanctions on oil and gas".

Trump added that while Hungary faced unique logistical challenges, including access to a sea that could be used to drill oil, he was "very disturbed" by other European countries that he said continued to buy Russian commodities despite not being landlocked.

Orban, who is one of Trump's closest allies in Europe and who has long resisted EU efforts to pressure Moscow over Ukraine, has defended his energy ties with Russia, saying on Friday that pipelines are neither "ideological" nor "political", but a "physical reality" due to the lack of ports.

He has been using his country's heavy dependence on Russian oil and gas as a means to maintain his good relations with Moscow, as well as a platform upon which he hopes to win re-election next April in Hungary. He has promised "cheap Russian energy" to voters.

Trump and Orban also discussed the war in Ukraine on Friday - their first formal talks since Trump returned to power - including the possibility of holding talks with Putin.

"He [Orban] understands Putin and knows him very well... I think that Viktor feels we're going to get that war ended in the not-too-distant future", Trump said.

The Hungarian leader, meanwhile, said only their two nations truly wanted peace in Ukraine.

"All the other governments prefer to continue the war because many of them think that Ukraine can win on the front line, which is a misunderstanding of the situation."

Trump asked him: "So you would say that Ukraine cannot win that war?" To which Orban replied: "You know, a miracle can happen."

Aside from the issue of oil and gas sanctions, Hungary's export-driven car industry has been hit by Trump's tariffs on European goods, adding to an already weak economy.

Despite frequent clashes with EU leaders over migration, democracy, and the rule of law, Trump urged Europe to "respect this leader very, very strongly because he's been right on immigration."

with additional reporting by Nick Thorpe

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system later this month, the BBC has learned.

And she will model some of her new measures on the Danish system – seen as one of the toughest in Europe.

We understand officials have been looking at Denmark's tighter rules on family reunion and restricting most refugees to a temporary stay in the country.

Mahmood wants to reduce incentives that draw people to the UK, while making it easier to expel those with no right to be in the country.

But some in her own party are against going down the Danish route, with one left-wing Labour MP saying it was too "hardcore" and contained echoes of the far right.

At the Labour conference in September, Mahmood promised to "do whatever it takes" to regain control of Britain's borders.

She is impressed that Denmark has driven down the number of successful asylum claims to a 40-year low – with the exception of 2020, amid pandemic travel restrictions.

And we have been told that she dispatched senior Home Office officials to Copenhagen last month to study what lessons could be applied to the UK.

Last week, we also made the journey to Denmark to find out how their immigration system operates.

Mahmood's opposite number Rasmus Stoklund, Denmark's minister for Immigration and Integration, is a member of Labour's sister party the Social Democrats.

He told us: "We have tightened our laws in many ways.

"We return more people back home. We have made it quite difficult to have family reunification in Denmark.

"You will get expelled a lot easier if you commit crimes. And we have made different programmes to help people go back home voluntarily."

There is no indication that the UK government would follow the Danish example of offering substantial sums - as much as the equivalent of £24,000 - for asylum seekers to return their country of origin, including making a contribution to the cost of their children's education.

But the BBC understands some of what Stoklund outlined to us is being closely scrutinised in the Home Office.

In Denmark, refugees who have been personally targeted by a foreign regime are likely to be given protection.

But most people who have been successfully granted asylum when fleeing conflicts are now only allowed to remain in the country on a temporary basis.

When the Danish government decrees that their home country is safe, they can be returned.

Four years ago, 200 refugees from Syria had their residency rights revoked even before the Assad regime fell, although they were not subsequently deported.

For those who have already been in Denmark for a longer period, the length of time necessary to acquire settlement rights has been extended and conditions - such as being in full-time employment - have been added.

Denmark's tighter rules for family reunions have also attracted the interest of UK Home Office officials.

If you are a refugee who has been given residency rights in Denmark, both you and your partner who is applying to join you in the country must be 24 or older.

The Danish government says this is to guard against forced marriages.

The partner in Denmark must not have claimed benefits for three years and also has to put up a financial guarantee - and both partners have to pass a Danish language test.

Refugees who live in housing estates designated as "parallel societies" – that is where more than 50% of residents are from what the Danish government considers to be "non-Western" backgrounds – will not be eligible for family reunion at all.

In September, the UK Home Office suspended new applications under the Refugee Family Reunion scheme, pending the drawing up of new rules.

The pre-September scheme allowed spouses, partners and dependents under 18 to come to the UK without fulfilling the income and English-language tests that apply to other migrants.

Mahmood is unlikely to go as far as Denmark when she announces the UK's replacement rules for family reunions, but it seems likely that she will take steps along a more restrictive route.

For Rasmus Stoklund, tighter immigration and integration rules are about protecting the nature of Danish society.

Denmark is a small country, he says, with a population less than a tenth of the UK's.

"We live peacefully and quietly with each other. I guess you could compare us to the Hobbits in the Lord of the Rings.

"We expect people who come here to participate and contribute positively and if they don't, they aren't welcome."

So, picking up on his Tolkein analogy, if the Danes are the Hobbits, who are their enemies, the Orcs?

"Well, I wouldn't call them Orcs but, of course, the biggest challenge we are facing is our lack of ability to expel some foreign criminals."

In Denmark - as in Britain - there is a live political debate on whether the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) makes the expulsion of foreign criminals more difficult.

Like the UK government, Stoklund does not want to leave the ECHR but believes changes could be made.

The Danish government has launched a review into how this could be done and Stoklund agreed he could make common cause with his British counterparts.

"I think it's very positive every time I hear that other countries have the same concerns and are frustrated the same way as many of us in Denmark are."

Mahmood is understood to be keen to meet Stoklund at the earliest opportunity.

For Labour ministers, there are political, as well as practical lessons, to learn from Denmark.

In 2015, the country had a centre-left government in trouble and a right-wing populist party surging in the polls, with immigration increasingly worrying voters.

There are parallels with the UK today, as Reform UK maintains its poll lead over Labour.

Downing Street is interested in how a centre-left party managed to defeat the Danish People's Party, one-time allies of Nigel Farage's UKIP in the European Parliament, to return to power.

Ida Auken, the Social Democrats' environment spokesperson, said adopting a tougher stance on immigration neutralised a toxic issue for the left - and gave it space to pursue progressive policies in other areas.

"For us, it was a licence to operate on the things we want to do.

"We want have a workforce that are educated, that have a social security and we do want to do a green transition.

"And we would never have been able to do this unless we've had those strict migration policies."

Some senior ministers in the UK are thought to find that argument persuasive.

Critics would point out that while there are similarities with the UK, the Danish political and electoral systems are different – as are some of the challenges.

The country is not facing flotillas of small boats arriving from the North Sea or the Baltic.

Danish is not as widely spoken as English, so language requirements are likely to discourage at least some potential refugees.

And while the vast majority of Social Democrat parliamentarians were on board for more hardline policies, there is far more wariness amongst some Labour MPs.

Off the record, some mainstream Labour MPs say they would oppose the transplantation of Danish policies to the UK.

On the left of the party, former frontbencher Clive Lewis argues strongly against going down the Danish route in an effort to outflank Reform UK.

"Denmark's Social Democrats have gone down, what I would call a hardcore approach to immigration." he says.

"They've adopted many of the talking points of what we would call the far right.

"Labour does need to win back some Reform-leaning voters but you can't do that at the cost of losing progressive votes.

"And that's what we're doing at the moment. We're haemorrhaging that support on the centre and the left."

Jo White, who leads a 50-strong group of Labour MPs in "Red Wall" seats in the Midlands and North of England, would like to see ministers go further in a Danish direction.

She argues that Labour pay will pay a heavy political price if it does not adopt policies such as requiring some asylum seekers to contribute to the cost of their stay.

"The consequences are that we go into a general election where Reform will be the biggest challenger in most Labour seats... and we will be annihilated."

"Immigration: the Danish Way" will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 13:30 on Sunday, 9 November, and will be available on BBC Sounds.

Jeremy Corbyn's new left-wing party is in a stand-off over £800,000 raised by Zarah Sultana, who is meant to be founding the party with him.

The money was raised when Sultana launched an unauthorised membership scheme for people wanting to join the group currently operating the name Your Party.

Senior figures have accused her of withholding the funds despite publicly agreeing to transfer the money.

A spokesperson for Sultana said she "is in the process of transferring all funds and data" but was conducting "essential due diligence as part of this process".

But the delay has sparked anger among YourParty insiders, who say the funds are essential for its founding conference later this month. A source in the party said it would likely be "forced to reduce delegate numbers" at the event.

The problems stem from a schism in the party caused when Sultana launched a membership portal through its official email account, taking payment and data from an alleged 20,000 people.

The money was held by MoU, a company set up in April to hold donations for the fledgling movement.

Corbyn branded the emails "unauthorised" and urged supporters to cancel direct debits.

The membership portal was later replaced, but not before the dispute escalated into legal threats and accusations of a "sexist boys' club".

The pair have since reconciled.

The plan had been to transfer all the money and data from MoU to Your Party after it was registered with the Electoral Commission on 30 September, then wind up the company.

But the money, believed to be around £800,000, has not yet been transferred.

Last week, the founding board of MoU, which included former Labour mayor of North of Tyne Combined Authority Jamie Driscoll, resigned en masse - making Sultana the sole director.

In a joint resignation statement, the three directors insisted they wanted to transfer the funds but Your Party officials had ignored questions about governance and legal liabilities.

Your Party officials have dismissed MoU's complaints as irrelevant and accused it of shifting the goalposts. Officials claimed they sent multiple proposals to move the funds, but were ignored by MoU.

A Your Party spokesman said "We are focused on delivering a successful founding conference for our members.

"While this task is made considerably harder by the continued retention of Your Party funds by MOU Operations Ltd, we will not allow anything or anyone to stop this party from going ahead.

"Working-class people need a party which stands up for them."

A spokesman for Sultana, Sultana, a co-director of Your Party, said: "Zarah is in the process of transferring all funds and data to Your Party, as she has already made clear publicly.

"Obviously, she has a duty to conduct essential due diligence as part of this process."

The row is the latest twist in a turbulent start for the party, which has attracted tens of thousands of members but been dogged by internal disputes over leadership and even the party's name.

Sultana has pushed for the party to be called The Left Party, while Corbyn hinted the name Your Party could stay.

Members will vote on the official name at a founding conference in Liverpool on 29 29 November.

Despite high-profile clashes, Sultana told the BBC the party was a "40-year project" aimed at "running" the government.

Sultana said she hopes to co-lead the new party with Corbyn, but will "throw her hat in the ring" if members opt for a single leader when the party constitution is agreed at conference.

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Dozens of people have been injured in an explosion during Friday prayers at a mosque inside a high school complex in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.

Fifty-four people were admitted to hospital, city police chief Asep Edi Suheri told a televised news conference, with the injuries ranging from minor to serious and including burns.

Authorities said three people had suffered serious injuries and 17 others came away with minor injuries. Others have been treated and discharged, local media reports.

The Jakarta Metropolitan Police is now investigating the cause of the explosion at the site in Kelapa Gading, a district in North Jakarta, with a bomb disposal team deployed to the search area.

Images from the scene show bystanders watching on as military personnel cordon off and guard the entrance to the state-run high school complex.

The explosion occurred around 12:15 local time (05:15 GMT), according to local reports.

A high-ranking Jakarta Metropolitan Police officer confirmed the presence of two objects resembling firearms at the scene.

Images from Indonesia's government-owned news agency Antara suggest one of the objects appeared to be a submachine gun and another looked like a pistol.

The submachine gun-type object appears to be inscribed on its barrel with: "14 words. For Agartha."

On its body, it says: "Brenton Tarrant. Welcome to Hell."

Brenton Tarrant is the perpetrator of a 2019 mass shooting at a mosque and Islamic centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, that killed 51 and injured dozens of others.

A minister who visited the scene later on Friday sought to dispel suggestions that weapons were present at the site, telling CNN Indonesia what had been pictured "turned out to be a toy gun, not a real gun".

Lodewijk Freidrich Paulus also called on the public not to presume the explosion was a "terrorist act" as investigators were still combing over the scene.

Another object found at the site was a dark green belt for storing gun cartridges.

A pupil at the school alleged to Antara that a homemade bomb had been brought in by a student who had often been bullied by other students.

Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population.

US President Donald Trump says he will consider allowing Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban to buy Russian oil, in an exemption from sanctions aimed at helping to end the Ukraine war.

Speaking on Friday during Orban's visit to the White House, Trump said an allowance might be made because "it's very difficult for him [Orban] to get the oil and gas from other areas".

The comments come after the US effectively blacklisted two of Russia's largest oil companies last month, threatening sanctions on those that buy from them.

Following the meeting, Hungary's foreign minister wrote on X that the US had given Budapest "a full and unlimited exemption from sanctions on oil and gas".

Trump added that while Hungary faced unique logistical challenges, including access to a sea that could be used to drill oil, he was "very disturbed" by other European countries that he said continued to buy Russian commodities despite not being landlocked.

Orban, who is one of Trump's closest allies in Europe and who has long resisted EU efforts to pressure Moscow over Ukraine, has defended his energy ties with Russia, saying on Friday that pipelines are neither "ideological" nor "political", but a "physical reality" due to the lack of ports.

He has been using his country's heavy dependence on Russian oil and gas as a means to maintain his good relations with Moscow, as well as a platform upon which he hopes to win re-election next April in Hungary. He has promised "cheap Russian energy" to voters.

Trump and Orban also discussed the war in Ukraine on Friday - their first formal talks since Trump returned to power - including the possibility of holding talks with Putin.

"He [Orban] understands Putin and knows him very well... I think that Viktor feels we're going to get that war ended in the not-too-distant future", Trump said.

The Hungarian leader, meanwhile, said only their two nations truly wanted peace in Ukraine.

"All the other governments prefer to continue the war because many of them think that Ukraine can win on the front line, which is a misunderstanding of the situation."

Trump asked him: "So you would say that Ukraine cannot win that war?" To which Orban replied: "You know, a miracle can happen."

Aside from the issue of oil and gas sanctions, Hungary's export-driven car industry has been hit by Trump's tariffs on European goods, adding to an already weak economy.

Despite frequent clashes with EU leaders over migration, democracy, and the rule of law, Trump urged Europe to "respect this leader very, very strongly because he's been right on immigration."

with additional reporting by Nick Thorpe

A great leader is a huge asset for company, of course, but can anyone be worth $1 trillion?

That is the pay packet Tesla shareholders have approved for Elon Musk, as long as he meets the targets they have set over the next 10 years.

In the meantime he won't collect a salary, but will presumably throw himself into his work with renewed vigour.

He was certainly buzzing with energy as he jigged around the stage at the carmaker's Texas headquarters to rapturous applause, telling the audience that while other shareholder meetings were "snoozefests", Tesla's are "bangers".

Musk has attracted an army of critics, upset that he sided with US President Donald Trump, wielding his chainsaw at government programmes, and wading into politics overseas with explicit support for the far right.

But he has an equally large following of admirers, people who believe in his vision and don't doubt that he can achieve it.

It seems most of his shareholders are in this camp, after they backed his new remuneration package this week.

Of course shareholders signed up, says New York-based financial analyst Dan Ives. If Musk succeeds - and Ives thinks he will - he will have created trillions of dollars worth of shareholder value, ample payback for investors.

Ives sees Musk as a "modern day Albert Einstein, a Thomas Edison".

Without the stupendous pay package, he says, there was a risk that within a few years Musk would have walked away, taking his Artificial Intellgience (AI) initiatives with him.

"Tesla without Musk is like pizza without cheese," he says.

Ives does not own shares in Tesla, but analyses the company for his firm Wedbush Securities and thinks Musk's "ability to go where others are not" means he may well achieve the targets that have been set.

"There's edgy behaviour, there's haters, but a lot of people love that. And that's why he's the richest person in the world.

"Does it help sell cars in Europe? No. But does it help Tesla win the AI race? Yes."

Musk's political activities have prompted a backlash from some customers, including demonstrations outside showrooms earlier this year.

But Matt Britzman at Hargreaves Lansdown in London, who has invested in Tesla, says the impact is a drop in the ocean when it comes to Tesla's earnings.

Far from weighing on the firm's valuation, he reckons around a third of the value of Tesla can be attributed to what he calls the "Musk premium", value that wouldn't be there without him.

"It's a $1.4 trillion company, not based on the current car business. It's a $1.4 trillion business based on expectations of what it can deliver over the next three years."

And a lot of those expectations are fixed on Musk and his record of thinking big and thinking long term, he says.

The potential reward for Musk is as astronomical as his vision for space travel.

With $1 trillion you could buy 20 million Model Y Teslas, at around $50,000 each. Or you could buy yourself a $10m house every day for 250 years, and still have change for furnishing and decorating.

The conditions appear to be very testing, including delivering 20 million Tesla vehicles and one million robots. A million self-driving Robotaxi vehicles will also need to be on the roads.

Tesla's overall market value will need to rise from its current $1.4tn to $8.5tn.

These are "incredibly high milestones", says Ann Lipton, a law professor at the University of Colorado.

However, the board does have "discretion" to decide when some of them have been met, she adds.

"If intervening events prevent him from reaching the goals, the board can deem them met anyway."

So the targets may not turn out to be quite as demanding as they appear.

There is also nothing in the terms, no constraint, that prevents Musk continuing to speak out about politics or anything else.

"Even after the pay package was proposed, he didn't pull back from his political commentary," adds Prof Lipton.

"So it seems to me that this pay package, whatever the goals are, however lofty they may be, they're not going to inhibit him from involving himself in whatever matters he wants to be involved in."

That freedom could pose the biggest risk, according to Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of industry insights at car sector marketing and software firm Cox Automotive.

Musk is a visionary she says, but he's also unpredictable, and it is possible that his other interests may distract him as they have before, leading him to neglect Tesla, which itself is already a smorgasbord of different businesses and challenges.

"I'm hoping that based on his experience with getting politically involved and how that really hurt some of his brand and sales that he has learned to really focus on this business.

"But that's going to be the board's responsibility," she adds, "to make sure that he stays within the guardrails, and that he does what's right for Tesla."

And if he does, well the sky is the limit, or possibly Mars, for Musk's ambition.

"People laughed when his 2018 pay package was approved," says Prof Lipton. "And he hit those milestones well ahead of schedule."

Two Kurdish men agreed to go undercover for the BBC and expose a network behind illegal High Street businesses because the criminals are causing harm to the reputation of Kurds in the UK, they say.

The two, who we are calling Saman and Ali, are Kurdish reporters who have both lived legally in the UK for years.

The BBC discovered that a Kurdish crime network was running mini-marts, barbershops and car washes the length of Britain, and wanted to find out more about how it operated and who was involved.

Equipped with secret cameras, Saman and Ali posed as Kurdish asylum seekers with no right to work, looking to buy and run a mini-mart from which to sell illegal cigarettes and vapes.

They were able to uncover how easy it is for someone in these circumstances to set up and run a business on the High Street in plain sight. Those involved, we discovered, pay Kurds who have UK citizenship to register the businesses in their names, helping fool the authorities.

Saman and Ali also managed to secretly film one of those at the centre of the network, who claimed that he could erase government fines of up to £60,000 faced by those employing illegal workers.

"I wanted to play a role in uncovering these illegal activities [...] to say loudly that they don't represent us," says Saman, a former asylum seeker himself. Saman entered the country illegally, having fled Kurdistan - a region that straddles the borders of Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria but which is not internationally recognised as a country - because his life was at risk.

The reporters acknowledge that tensions over illegal immigration are high in the UK and say they have both been worried that the investigation could inflame hostilities.

But Ali says that the illegal working "damages the whole Kurdish community" and he feels compelled to "bring it [the criminal network] out into broad daylight".

Separately, Ali says he was concerned the coverage could be seized upon by the far-right.

He says this particularly struck him when he realised that far-right activist Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom march was taking place in London on one of the weekends he was working undercover for the BBC. Placards and flags could be seen at the rally, reading "we want our country back".

Saman and Ali have both been monitoring social media reaction to the BBC investigation from inside the Kurdish community and say it has sparked intense anger for some. One Facebook comment they spotted said: "How can we identify and find [the undercover reporters] to kill them like dogs!"

Another called for their families in Kurdistan to be slaughtered.

They have also read accusations that they were spies for the British government, and traitors to fellow Kurds. "We are not spies, and we have no intention of harming the Kurdish community," Saman says. "Our goal is to expose those who have damaged its reputation. We are proud of our Kurdish identity and deeply concerned about the actions of such individuals."

Ali says he has also come across positive reaction, praising and defending the reporters for exposing wrongdoing and criminality.

He says some young Kurdish men come to the UK having heard they can make money by selling illegal cigarettes.

Reacting to our investigation, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said on Tuesday that these kinds of networks "create an incentive for people to come here illegally". An "urgent investigation" has now been launched by the Home Office, it confirmed.

Ali stresses that a small percentage of Kurds based in the UK are involved: "Maybe a minority in the community are involved in this illicit business - damaging the whole community."

It is difficult to establish the exact size of the UK's Kurdish population - official records tend to log nationality rather than ethnicity. The Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, London, suggests there are a little more than 500,000.

Most of those seeking asylum say they are fleeing political persecution, according to Ibrahim Avicil from the Refugee Workers Cultural Association (RWCA), a charity that supports refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

This was the case for our undercover reporter Saman, who, when he first came to the UK, struggled for years. He says he had to live on less than £20 a week while his asylum claim was considered.

Asylum seekers now receive about £49 a week - or £9.95 if they are in accommodation which provides meals, according to Home Office guidance.

"Realistically speaking, this isn't enough to maintain a dignified life," says Mr Avicil from the RWCA.

Because asylum seekers are largely prevented from working, he feels many are open to being exploited and are effectively "forced to work in the illegal market for as low as £3 per hour".

A spokesperson for the Home Office said: "We make no apology for not granting asylum seekers the right to work - doing so would create an incentive for people to come to the UK illegally."

Asylum cases can take years to be resolved with nearly a third taking more than 12 months, according to government figures from the end of March this year.

Saman says working illegally in a car wash, barbershop or mini-mart would have been very easy to do, but he told us he would never have done that.

However, he says that those he met working in illegal mini-marts during his work with the BBC investigation seemed "lost", especially those whose asylum claim has been refused and who were in the appeals process.

"They used all their money to come to the UK, they had their asylum refused and now they've lost everything."

Ali agrees that these people seemed desperate.

"If [they] say you're not allowed to work - but also [you] don't get paid enough to survive - what are you supposed to do? Most people in this situation would do anything."

But they also point out that there are people who they exposed in the criminal network that are not in need - they seem to be motivated by greed.

Shaxawan - a Kurdish man exposed to be a key fixer in the network - drives a BMW, he points out.

"He just wants to get richer and richer. He is exploiting people put in a vulnerable position."

Saman describes these people as "shamelessly and ruthlessly" exploiting the system, and says that "many of these people are clever and find loopholes to deceive" the authorities.

But he is at pains to stress that there is nevertheless a sense of "honour, kindness, and hospitality" in the Kurdish community. He is worried that "now the image of Kurds in Britain is changing and becoming negative".

He says: "I want to show the true image of Kurds and make it clear that we are not involved in these illegal activities."