(20 Sep 2006)
1. Various of protesters gathered at rally in Kossuth Square outside Parliament building
2. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) vox pop, female protester:
"I don't agree with the violence, but I can really understand because after we've been lied to over and over again, people just don't know what to do any more. This is outrageous."
3. Cutaway of speaker addressing crowds at rally
4. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) vox pop, male protester
"Why am I here? I'm here because of September the first (the day new economic measures came into force), because all of the prices have been going up and they're going to bring in new tuition rules - this is really upsetting."
5. Various of people demonstrating outside parliament building
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators gathered for a third night on Wednesday in Kossuth Square by Hungary's parliament building, continuing their calls for Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to step down from office.
By 1700 GMT AP reporters at the scene estimated around 1-thousand people were in attendance at the rally.
Their numbers were bolstered by the arrival of a number of farmers from the countryside who prepared food for demonstrators.
One protester talked about what had brought him to the square.
"I'm here because of September the first (the day new economic measures came into force), because all of the prices have been going up and they're going to bring in new tuition rules - this is really upsetting," he said.
Around Budapest security forces braced themselves for another night of more disorder after police using water cannon and tear gas were involved in violent clashes with protesters on Monday and Tuesday nights.
The disorder was sparked by Gyurcsany's leaked admission that his government had repeatedly lied to the public about the economy.
One demonstrator said she didn't agree with the violence, but she could understand it "because after we've been lied to over and over again, people just don't know what to do any more. This is outrageous."
Authorities say that since the violence began, a total of 140 officers have been injured, including 38 in the early hours of Wednesday, and 137 people have been detained.
The most violent clashes involved splinter groups that had broken off from a larger demonstration of about 10,000 people and marched to the headquarters of the Socialist Party and to the Hungarian state radio building.
Police have said that many of the troublemakers were linked to hooligan groups associated with two local football teams.
The Hungarian leadership has appealed for calm and Gyurcsany has so far resisted all calls for him to resign insisting that his government will push through with his reforms.
The violence has shaken a country that for much of the last two decades has been held up as a model of progress following the collapse of communism in eastern Europe.

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