Breaking news out of slovakia. An assaniation attempt on the Prime Minister of slovakia. Robert fitzo has been shot and injured an incident which happened earlier this afternoon. Theses pictures show the immidiate aftermath of the attack, with the Prime Minister being dragged into a car. His official Facebook Page says he was shot several times. From a different angle at the scene, we can see a man being arrested by people who appear to be police officers. We still dont know anything about the man being restrained. It is reported he is 71 years old. Does the pictures from his arrest. The government says Prime Minister fico is in a life threatening condition. These are pictures of him being rushed from a helipcopter to a nearby hospital for treatment. Being rushed from a helipcopter those being rushed from a helipcopter are the key eleme pictures those are the key elements, the key pictures in terms of what has happened through the past few hours. We saw in some of those pictures in ope
and that s what bank of america was for me. sandra: all right, 9:00 p.m. in the middle east and fighting is back on after a seven-day truce came to a close, signalling a new stage in this war. sirens are sounding across central and southern israel at this hour and the idf is striking further into gaza as we speak. the fate of roughly 130 hostages is still up in the air. welcome to our two, i m sandra smith here in new york. hi, john. john: good to be with you for a second hour, i m john roberts in washington and this is america reports . israel urging all civilians in gaza to evacuate as operations expand into the southern part of the strip. the biden administration warning israel to proceed with caution, raising concern more aid and support to our ally may be limited. so, what is the strategy going forward? sandra: we will put that question to mark regev, a senior adviser to benjamin netanyahu in moments. but first, to nate foy, he s live on the ground in northern isr
prigozhin. and i would standby that. i don t think he s a rational actor. i still think that at the end of the day we were dealing with two crazy criminals who have they don t think like us. they don t act like us. but at the same time i do believe that what brought him to the conclusion to negotiate was this remarkable logic, but i also think he ll absolutely exact his revenge on prigozhin since he s going to a satellite state of russia. lots of comments for prigozhin to stay away from windows and tea and the stairca tea and the like. thank you for coming in, former spokesperson for the mission to the united nations we appreciate it. up next, there are doubts from house speaker kevin mccarthy about donald trump and his ability to win the gop nomination. we ll see how that played out. and coming up on morning joe, the latest in trump s classified
i think he s trying to take advantage both not just for the global audience, but his domestic audience, which he is very well aware that he does not have the majority support in belarus. in fact, he s the illegitimate president of belarus. i think that is his focus. i absolutely believe that putin will exact his revenge on prigozhin in belarus and for many people think about he should stay away from windows and i believe that because belarus is only a satellite state of russia at this point. so, when we re talking about ukraine s counteroffensive and what kelly was saying, characterizing blinken s comments as you ain t seen nothing yet, they have yet to deploy the bulk of its forces in the ongoing counteroffensive. we know ukrainian troops have been up against real serious challenges. and that there hasn t been a ton of momentum yet. do you think it is too early to count out the success of the counteroffensive? oh, no, i think the ukrainian military has done a remarkable
russia. let s take a look at the role belarus played in all of this. i m joined by cnn s salma abdelaziz in london. it was a bit of a prize lukashenko would play such a key role here. reporter: it s not necessarily surprising that president putin turned to alexander lukashenko of belarus. he is a close ally, someone who owes putin, if you will. it is president putin who stepped in after the 2020 elections in belarus to bolster a very fierce crackdown by alexander lukashenko on the opposition when it appeared that he could lose power, lose his throne. and lukashenko has paid president putin back by essentially allowing him to use his country as a satellite state during the invasion of ukraine. president putin has launched attacks on ukraine from belarus. he has housed tactical nuclear weapons in belarus. and now he is going to be