Boiling over: an attempt on the Slovakian PM’s life
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
An attempt on Robert Fico’s life comes at a time of deep-running polarisation in his country—much of which is his own doing. A vote today among auto workers in America’s historically union-unfriendly south will indicate whether an organised-labour revolution can take hold (9:26). And the perception of time varies depending on what you are looking at (17:24).
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| 1:23.5 | Far fewer workers join labor unions in America's South than they do elsewhere in the country. |
| 1:29.3 | But auto workers recently voted to unionize in Tennessee. |
| 1:33.3 | A vote being held today will show whether that was a one-off or the start of a revolution. |
| 1:38.3 | And time flies. Time stood still. A week is a long time in politics. The perception of time is really flexible. But what flexes it? Some new research suggests that what we're looking at might do it. |
| 2:00.3 | But first... |
| 2:01.6 | In the small Slovakian town of Han-Lová yesterday afternoon, |
| 2:11.6 | Prime Minister Robert Fizzo was greeting supporters after a government meeting. |
| 2:16.6 | Then, gunfire. |
| 2:23.1 | Video shows an older man with a handgun race in toward the prime minister. |
| 2:28.8 | Mr. Fizzo's bodyguards dragged him into a car and the attacker was detained. |
| 2:33.6 | Slovakia's president, Zuzana Chaputova, said it was an attack on democracy. |
| 2:38.0 | It's, but it's a democracy. |
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