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00:00 Officials in Slovakia point to media and opposition as Prime Minister Ficho remains in hospital.
00:12 Vladimir Putin is in China to further strengthen ties with Beijing.
00:20 Lead candidate for the European left says the EU risks its global credibility by applying
00:25 different responses to Israel's war in Gaza and Russia's war on Ukraine.
00:34 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Ficho remains in hospital in serious condition following
00:39 an assassination attempt in the central Slovak town of Handlova.
00:43 "I must say that after a short visit of Prime Minister Robert Ficho, his health is
00:54 still very serious and I was able to speak to him for only a few minutes because his
01:02 current condition requires real peace."
01:05 Apart from the political buzz, all seems very calm in Bratislava.
01:09 You wouldn't tell this is a country at the brink of civil war as the Interior Minister
01:14 yesterday said.
01:16 But behind the curtain, there is a lot of worrying going on concerning the health of
01:20 Prime Minister Robert Ficho.
01:25 According to the Minister of the Interior, the alleged attacker has confessed information
01:30 he obtained from the media made up one of his motives.
01:36 The suspect blamed the Prime Minister for various controversial issues in Slovakia,
01:41 including the abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office, the cessation of military aid to Ukraine
01:47 and Ficho's interference in public television.
02:02 Outgoing Slovak President Susana Kaputova and Peter Pellegrini, winner of the presidential
02:07 election and ally of Robert Ficho, displayed a united front to call for calm.
02:37 President-elect Peter Pellegrini has also called on Slovakian political parties to stop
02:42 or suspend their campaign for the European elections in order to not fuel more confrontation.
02:51 The shooting of Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Ficho has sent shockwaves across Europe.
02:57 The country's Interior Ministry hinted that the attack might have been politically motivated.
03:03 Investigative journalist Andrey Matyshak tells Euronews Serbia that Slovakia's extremely
03:09 divisive politics has created a breeding ground for violence.
03:14 The polarization or even probably the radicalization of at least some part of Slovak society is
03:23 first of all a result of what politicians are doing.
03:30 We had a parliament election in September, then in March, April two rounds of presidential
03:36 elections.
03:37 Now we are in the middle of the campaign before the European Parliament elections.
03:43 So yes, so constant campaigning, constant political lashing and bashing 24/7 for many,
03:49 many months and even before that.
03:52 Many drew parallels between Wednesday's attack and another episode of violence occurred in
03:58 Slovakia.
03:59 The humiliating murder of investigative reporter Jan Kušak and his fiancée Martina Kužnirová.
04:08 Let's use this horrible act of violence in somewhat positive way.
04:15 It would be good to see, I don't know, the politicians from all political party being
04:19 at one moment being in one room and really saying to the voters, please, please don't
04:29 spread the hatred, don't spread the violence, don't spread lies.
04:36 Slovak authorities have described the attack as the darkest day in the country's modern
04:41 history.
04:43 The alleged attacker has been charged with attempted murder.
04:49 Fico is still in hospital.
04:51 His condition remains serious, although stable.
04:53 Vladimir Putin is in China again.
05:02 His second visit in six months marks 75 years of China-Russia relations, a partnership that
05:08 became stronger than ever since the war in Ukraine.
05:11 The Kremlin leader is there with the aim of deepening ties even further.
05:15 The key player in the bilateral relations is energy.
05:23 Russia is a reliable supplier of energy for the growing Chinese economy.
05:29 By the way, last year, the level of friendly supply of Russian oil, gas and coal reached
05:35 record levels.
05:36 We are expanding cooperation in industry, including automotive, increasing the supply
05:41 chain in agriculture.
05:43 We are also expanding cooperation in space, including space, nuclear energy.
05:47 After a morning packed with high-level meetings, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin attended a gala
05:52 concert later on Thursday.
05:54 China-Russia relations are a sign of the third quarter of a century of prosperity.
06:03 China-Russia friendship will continue to grow and develop.
06:08 We will continue to develop comprehensive strategic cooperation, mutual benefit and
06:15 cooperation, which is in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two
06:21 peoples.
06:22 The meeting takes place while Russia mounts its biggest offensive in Ukraine since the
06:23 war began.
06:24 The European Union is risking its global credibility by applying different standards to its response
06:34 to Israel's war in Gaza and Russia's war on Ukraine.
06:37 This is according to Walter Beyer, lead candidate of the European left for the EU elections
06:42 in June.
06:43 In an exclusive interview with Euronews, the co-founder and president of the party lays
06:47 blame at the door of the Commission President.
06:50 Ursula von der Leyen's initially uncritical support for the Israeli government has been
06:54 misguided, he argues.
06:57 Her behavior is typical for the double standard.
07:03 It's inadequate.
07:05 It bears responsibility for that what is happening.
07:10 And it's also not honest, because to blame everybody who is critical of the current Israeli
07:21 government being an anti-Semite, it's wrong, it's unjust, it's unfair, it's against history,
07:30 it's against reason.
07:32 Generally speaking, she dealt very badly and I see now they are saying something about
07:39 Rafa, but they're saying it lately.
07:41 However, Beyer is reluctant to go as far as Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of left-wing
07:46 party La France Insoumise, which considers the situation in Gaza to be a genocide.
07:50 LFI is not a member of Beyer's party but shares its leftist values.
07:57 I don't like the big words.
08:00 I mean, 35,000 killed people, two-thirds of them civilians, large part of them being kids,
08:12 destroyed cities, destroyed hospitals, a complete destruction of infrastructure.
08:18 What would you like to call this?
08:21 In my words, it is war crime, it is a tremendous crime towards humanity and we have to stop this.
08:34 In the interview, the 70-year-old Austrian politician also strongly condemns the recent
08:39 statements made by the centre-right European People's Party about the far right.
08:44 Listen to the entire interview on Euronews next week in our new edition of Global Conversation.
08:50 The government in the Netherlands has veered sharply to the right as four parties agreed
08:57 to form a coalition and announce the strictest asylum policy ever.
09:03 Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders and three other party leaders agreed on a coalition deal
09:10 capping months of negotiations that had left it unclear who would become prime minister.
09:15 Thank you.
09:20 Ladies and gentlemen, we are writing history today.
09:25 And I think that for everyone who reads the agreement of the four of us,
09:29 that they can see that a lot is going to change in the Netherlands.
09:32 The strictest asylum policy ever, as it is written in the piece of us.
09:38 We are writing the policy of an asylum crisis, we are writing the policy of a spread.
09:45 The parties still must agree on a prime minister who is expected to be from outside the party structures.
10:01 Hello, my name is Myrthe Tripati, I am the president of a European citizen association
10:06 called Voices of Nuclear, whose goal is to make the central role of nuclear energy recognized in the energy transition.
10:12 If I were elected to the European Parliament, my first decision would be to give back to Europe
10:18 all its ability to make decisions for itself and for itself,
10:22 especially by regaining a real energy sovereignty.
10:25 This energy sovereignty must go through the development of nuclear energy and hydroelectricity.
10:31 These two energies are massive, controllable, low-carbon, environmentally friendly.
10:36 They already represent 70% of our own electricity.
10:40 We must help France, but we must also help Germany, Italy, Spain to regain their nuclear industry.
10:47 We must develop the European academic curriculum.
10:49 We must support, retain our researchers, develop their technologies in factories on the territory.
10:54 These two energies must be designated sovereign and strategic.
11:00 Hello, I am Marine Chollet, head of the ICHINOX party for the 2024 European elections.
11:13 If we were elected to the European Parliament, one of the first measures we would take would be the taxation of kerosene at the European level.
11:19 Indeed, kerosene is the only fuel that has not been taxed since the 1944 convention in Chicago.
11:25 This creates a huge competition bias by other means of transport, which are, however, for most of the carbonated fuels.
11:31 We would like to reinvest this money in rail and infrastructure development,
11:35 but also in the maintenance of rail infrastructure at the European level,
11:38 so that we make rail the European means of transport.
11:41 European.