karin kneissl, the former austrian foreign minister who famously danced with putin at her own wedding in 2018. now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna s close ties to moscow and the impact of austria s neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recently. now, you ve left your home country and you re in exile in lebanon. just explain to me why. well, when our government literally imploded in 2019, all i wanted was to continue my academic work and publishing, but i had to find out that there was not a single contract. furthermore, a lot of harassment, also the death threats. but the bigger problem, honestly, was this de facto prohibition to work,
is. welcome to you. i m yasmin vossoughian in for christian sing live at msnbc headquarters. today authorities in a pair of texas towns are grappling with a ton of unanswered questions as they investigate the deaths of 16 people, half guild in a hail of gunfire in the city of allen, the other half killed when a vehicle drove into a crowd in brownsville. we got an update on the second incident near the border. we ll bring you that in just a moment. meanwhile, the attack at a mall in a dallas suburb underscoring this chilling reality, that we re seeing more americans every single day who have had to live through a mass shooting. in a minute i ll speak to one man whose decision to go shopping on a saturday afternoon nearly cost him his life. with a potentially historic default looming 3 1/2 weeks ag way, the president and kevin mccarthy brace for a meeting at the white house. what is the president s new plan to pressure republicans into cutting a deal? we ll get into that.
and lebron. that s more plagy making you get to watch and watch these amazing athletes continue to play. we ll be watching. we ll be rooting for seven games, thank you. cnn this morning continues right now. the leader of russia s wagner group said he is pulling his troops out of bakhmut, that key ukraine cran city. these men here who died today. they re out by the middle of next week just after a very important date of the russian calendar, victory day on may the 9th. police in california have arrested a former uc davis student accused of stabbing three people, killing two of them. these crimes were horrific. we hope that the announcement provides some level of relief. dominguez could be arraigned in court as early as monday. protests in support of neely have called for answers. there could have been somebody there to help him. he should still be alive today. there have to be consequences. his family deserves justice. supposed to use intelligence and c
everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the mass shooting over the weekend at an outlet mall in allen, texas. a source telling cnn investigators now believe the attack that killed eight and wounded at least seven hours was connected to right-wing extremism. in addition to this audio, disturbing video of the initial moments of the saturday attack captured on this rear view cam. you can see the gunman get out of the vehicle, we ve frozen the image at the moment the shooting begins. we basically turned to watch. and as we were watching, the shooter goes right across he s not running, but he s in a deliberate assault-type move. and he either had an m-16 or an m-4, he was firing, and shot about four or five shots as he proceeded towards the hamburger place. i don t know who will he shot. a few moments later, we saw a police officer come across in front of us, like he was in pursuit of the indi
shot in gaza city, where just hours ago. the israeli military has carried out air raids in the gaza strip, striking targets belonging to the islamichhad militant group. palestinian officials said three commanders of the group were among at least nine people killed. several others have been wounded. civilians are reportedly among the dead. airstrikes are going on in different areas, also across the gaza strip. it started at two o clock in the morning with the airstrikes targeting three locations, two in gaza city, the main city, and one in the south, rafa, quickly the news was spread around with bombs, everyone was awake and the ministry said that nine people were killed and several others were killed and several others were injured. ms nymagee had issued a statement saying that three of the top leaders top military commanders were killed alongside their wives and some of their children also killed me attack. if nymagee had said we would revenge. islamic jihad has said th