HAS BEGUN POURING IN AFTER

REPORTS THAT SLOVAKIA'S PRIME

MINISTER, ROBERT FITO WAS SHOT

AT AFTER A GOVERNMENT OFF-SITE

MEETING. PRIME MINISTER FITO'S

CONDITION WAS NOT IMMEDIATELY

KNOWN. THE SLOVAK PRESIDENT HAS

CONDEMNED WHAT HE CALLS A

BRUTAL AND RECKLESS ATTACKS

HERE AND INTERNATIONAL

DIPLOMATIC EDITOR NIC

ROBERTSON, COVERING THE VERY

LATEST FOR AS NICK, WHAT HAVE

YOU LEARNED YEAH, BECKY, WE'VE

BEEN ABLE TO LOOK AT MORE OF A

VIDEO THAT'S ON SOCIAL MEDIA

THAT SHOWS THE AFTERMATH OF THE

ATTACK WE CAN IDENTIFY THE

LOCATION BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN

SOME OF THESE IMAGES FROM

DIFFERENT ANGLES BEFORE, BUT

THIS IS A NEW IMAGE.

>> AND WHAT YOU CAN SEE IN THIS

IMAGE IS SOMEONE WHO APPEARS TO

BE THE PRIME MINISTER BEING

SORT OF LIFT CARRIED RACED AND

RUN SEVERAL YARDS INTO HIS

WAITING VEHICLE BY SECURITY

SERVICES. THOSE THOSE MENU CAN

SEE THE CENTER OF THE PICTURE.

THERE. WE HAVE VIDEO FROM

TAKEN, I WOULD SAY FROM THE

LEFT OF THE IMAGE, YOU'RE

LOOKING AT THERE, THAT WOULD

SHOW SOME OF THOSE SECURITY

OFFICIALS PICKING UP A MAN AND

MOVING HIM. YOU CAN SEE HIS

LEGS SORT OF WORKING UNDERNEATH

ME BUT IS CLEARLY NOT MOVING

UNDER HIS OWN MOTION IS CLEARLY

BEING HELD BY THE SECURITY

SERVICES. AND THEN WE

UNDERSTAND HE WAS TAKEN TO THE

HOSPITAL IN THIS TOWN AND

YOU'RE SEEING IMAGES OF THE

HOSPITAL THERE AND WE'VE NOW

BEEN HEARING AND THIS IS BEING

REPORTED BY REUTERS, QUOTING

THE HOSPITAL SPOKESPERSON AT

THE HOSPITAL, THE PRIME

MINISTER WAS INITIALLY TAKEN

TWO AND THEY SAY THAT HE

ARRIVED THEY'RE CONSCIOUS THAT

THEY HAVE STABILIZED HIS WOUNDS

AND THEY SAY WOUNDS GUNSHOT

WOUNDS AND THEY SAY THAT HE HAS

NOW BEEN TRAVELED TO A

TRANSFERRED TO A HIGHER LEVEL

FACILITY AND WE UNDERSTAND IS

BEING TAKEN SO THAT HIGHER

LEVEL FACILITY BY AN AIR

AMBULANCE OR HELICOPTER HAS

BEEN DISPATCHED BY THE MAIN

MEDICAL SERVICES IN SLOVAKIA,

AND HIS BEING TAKEN. NOW WE

DON'T KNOW WHERE HIS BEING

TAKEN, BUT TO A HIGHER LEVEL

MEDICAL SERVICE. SO CONSCIOUS,

WHEN HE ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL

INJURIES STABILIZED AND THEN

TRANSFERRED ON FOR HIGHER LEVEL

CARE WE CAN'T READ TOO MUCH

INTO THAT, BUT AGAIN, I THINK

IT WOULD BE LIKELY IF HE WERE

TO HOSPITAL AND HE WAS IN A

DESPERATE CONDITION. THEY

PROBABLY WOULD HAVE TRIED TO

PROVIDE LONGER-TERM SERVICE,

BUT THE FACT THAT THIS HAS

HAPPENED VERY QUICKLY AND MOVED

OUT TO HIGHER LEVEL CARE.

AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS

MEANS. I MEAN, STABILIZE CAN

MEAN MANY, MANY DIFFERENT

THINGS, BUT CONSCIOUS, I THINK

IS THE KEY THERE CONSCIOUS WHEN

HE ARRIVED LET'S JUST HAVE A

LOOK AT THE IMAGES AGAIN THAT

WE HAVE CLEARED HERE AT CNN.

AND WE'RE PUSHING TO CLEAR

MORE OF THE SCENE. OF COURSE,

THE SLOVAK PRESIDENT HAS

CONDEMNED WHAT HE CALLS A

BRUTAL AND RECKLESS LET'S JUST

BRING UP THE IMAGE AGAIN AND

FOR PURPOSES OF THOSE WHO HAVE,

MAY HAVE JUST JOINED US, NIC,

JUST ENLIGHTENED ON WHAT WE ARE

LOOKING AT HERE.

>> YEAH, VERY EXPERIENCED PRIME

MINISTER ROBERT FIFTH TOE, BEEN

PRIME MINISTER 2006 TO 2010,

2012 TO 2018 LEADS A LEFTIST

POPULIST PARTY THAT HAS BEEN

SEEN AS SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS

VLADIMIR PUTIN OPPOSED TO THE

EUROPEAN UNION A NATO SENDING

TROOPS, SENT SENDING WEAPONS

AND MILITARY SUPPORT TO

UKRAINE, SOFTENED ITS POSITION

WHEN HE CAME INTO OFFICE LATE

LAST YEAR SEPTEMBER WITH THE

ELECTIONS, HE CAME INTO OFFICE

IN OCTOBER, IN 1709 OUT OF 150

SEATS IN THE PARLIAMENT. BUT

THIS IS COMPLETELY OUT OF THE

ORDINARY. HE WAS AT AN OFFSITE

GOVERNMENT MEETING AND HANDLE

OVER ABOUT TWO HOURS DRIVE

NORTHEAST OF BRATISLAVA, THE

CAPITAL WE DON'T KNOW IF IT'S

BEEN TRANSFERRED TO THE

CAPITAL. WE DON'T KNOW WHO

ELSE WAS IN THAT MEETING. WE

DON'T KNOW WHO THE GUNMAN WAS

HE IS SOMEONE WHO HAS HAS QUITE

STRONG VIEWS ON ISSUES LIKE

IMMIGRATION. AND THESE TYPES OF

ISSUES. AGAIN WE WE DON'T HAVE

ANY CLUES. WE DO KNOW HOWEVER,

THAT THE ASSAILANT OR THE

PERSON WHO APPEARED TO BE THE

ASSAILANT WAS KNOCKED TO THE

GROUND, BUNDLE TO THE GROUND BY

SECURITY OFFICIALS WHO WOULD

SEE IN THE VIDEO, KNEELING ON

THE ASSAILANT AND RESTRAINING

HIM. BUT THOSE FEW DETAILS

COMING FROM THE NEARBY HOSPITAL

IN HANDLE OVER FROM THE

SPOKESMAN AND JUST TO, BE

ABSOLUTELY CLEAR, THE IMAGES

THAT YOU SAW, THERE. THE VIDEO

OF THE SLOVIC PRIME MINISTER

FITO. WERE JUST MOMENTS BEFORE

THE SHOOTING INCIDENT. HE WAS

SPEAKING AT A PRESS CONFER