This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Saturday the 8th of November these are our main stories.
Hungary says it's been given a full and unlimited exemption from US sanctions on Russian oil imports.
Republican senators fail to overcome the impasse overpaying essential federal workers like air traffic controllers during the US government shutdown.
And the Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson,
who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at the age of 97.
You know what would be the one stronger there,
you know what would be the one that's left there because you're too heavy to be lifted out.
Offshore oil workers are told to lose weight or risk losing their jobs.
Last month, in a bid to help end the war in Ukraine,
President Trump effectively blacklisted two of Russia's largest oil companies,
threatening sanctions on those that buy from them.
This caused a headache for, among others,
one of Mr Trump's closest allies in Europe, the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Most of his country's energy imports come from Russia, due, he claims, to Hungary being landlocked.
But following a meeting between the two leaders at the White House,
it's been confirmed that that Budapest has been given a one-year exemption from the sanctions.
Ahead of the meeting, President Trump gave his reasons why it was something he was considering.
They don't have sea.
They don't have the ports.