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slovakia s cabinet is meeting this morning to discuss the political implications. mr fico was shot several times as he was leaving a government meeting yesterday, in what the interior minister described as a politically motivated attack . local media are reporting that a man in his 70s has been charged with attempted murder. speaking outside of the hospital where mr fico is receiving treatment, deputy prime minster robert kalinak gave an update on his condition. translation: over the course of the night, the doctors - managed to stabilise the patient s condition. and at this moment, further procedures are under way that should aim towards improvement of his condition. the situation is really serious. live to the slovak capital, bratislava, and our correspondent bethany bell. bethany, hello to you. let s start with that news that we received that local media are reporting that a mild in his 70s has been charged with attempted milder, do we know any more than that? == wi ....
is business today. it is packed. we re starting in the us where presidentjoe biden has said that china is cheating, not competing on trade as introduced tariffs on $18 billion worth of imports and electric vehicles to steal. he has accused the country of unfairly subsidising its clean energy sector and flooding international markets with cheap exports which is says hertz american businesses and workers. our north american business correspondent has more from new york. it s not often we find former president and agreement but we have seen president biden keeping tariff enacted by his predecessor and increasing them. they focus on key technologies powering green transition and approve a 100% tariff on electric vehicles imported into the us, up from 25%. a doubling of the levy on solar cells to 50% and on semiconductors, to 50%. president biden says they are designed to protect us manufacturers from being undercut by china in the industries of the future, from electric veh ....
thousands waiting to get out of gaza. stuck at the border with egypt the u.n. tonight warning that the middle east is on the verge of the abyss. [speaking non-english language] norah: to the north israelis and 28 villages on the border of lebanon are ordered to evacuate. the ivf releases chilling new video of the brutal attack on an israeli kibbutz. tonight the large amount of weapons seized from hamas. here we have hand grenades, we have iuds. and here we have antitank missiles. this really is quite an arsenal. norah: israeli defense minister warns of a long war. charlie d agata is with israeli troops. when it comes to sheer firepower, there is no contest. israel has one of the most advanced, well-equipped, and best trained armies in this region. hamas may not have the firepower to match israeli tanks like these, but the question is how useful heavy weapons will be on the tightly packed streets of gaza. norah: america s top diplomat returns to israel to ....
and why so many palestinians are dying in this operation. so hamas has had a diabolical plan of embedding all of its infrastructure within the civilian arena. we are currently targeting their leaders, from ismail haniyeh, who is the prime minister of hamas, but is actually the mastermind of the massacre in the south, on october the 7th. from him, right up at the top, down all the way down to the terrorists that conducted the infiltration, we are gathering intelligence and seeking them out and destroying them. so wherever they are hiding, congregating, planning their next attack, that is a legitimate target and well within the realm of the laws of armed conflict. we will seek them out. we didn t start this war. we didn t choose to go to war with hamas. they chose it, but we will win it. critics of israel will say that the thousands of people who have been killed, the hundreds of thousands who have been displaced, they didn t choose this war either, what do you say to the ....
the country from gaza. gunmen then cross the border, some on paragliders, launching multiple attacks on towns, military bases and kibbutz. 1,400 people were murdered. hostages were also taken, with the israeli military now saying 155 people are now being held by hamas. israel responded with air strikes on gaza which have continued all week. electricity, food, fuel and water have been cut off and more thani million residents were told to leave. the palestinian authorities say more than 2,670 people have already died. meanwhile, an estimated 300,000 israeli troops have gathered on the border with gaza, ahead of a possible ground invasion. let s focus now on hamas s objectives. after launching its attacks in southern israel. live now to kamran bochari, senior director of the eurasian security and prosperity portfolio at the newlines institute.. and an expert on islamic extremism: if you can, talk to me about where hamas s objectives now lie given what we have seen over the ....