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japan's public broadcasting and h k says that former prime minister sions, are obey, has died after being shot at an event in the city of nata. ah, this is al jazeera hello. i'm adrian finnegan in dough. how we begin done without breaking news out of japan? japanese public broadcast and h k is reported that former prime minister, sions, are obeyed, has died after he was shot during a campaign event in the city of nata al jazeera, as florence 3 reports now on the murder of a former prime minister. schanzer abbe had been containing in the city of norah, a head of upper house elections this weekend. the former prime minister had been speaking for only a few minutes. when i witness reports a 2 loud bangs were heard and he collapsed to the ground. a group of men se in

tackling another man believe to have been distributed to the ground with the court, say a 42 year old man has been arrested public broadcast in each case add video of what's believed to be the only other reports showed obey lying on the ground, his should stained with blood, while some one attempted cpr on him. a fire department official said our bay was in cod. you and pulmonary arrest. he was air lifted to a hospital. the incident has shocked japan, a country with strict gun ownership laws and low rates of gun crime. ah, they came from a high profile political family. his grandfather had been a prime minister and his father was a foreign minister. after studying politics, he rose through the ranks of the liberal democratic party to hold the position of prime minister in 2006, becoming the youngest person to do so. since the 2nd little girl. he resigned

a year later citing health reasons, but returned to par in 2012. when he set about pursuing ambitious reforms. he pushed an economic agenda dubbed abbe nomics to boost japan's struggling economy. he's been described as a towering figure in japanese politics. he brought the ability to a political system that tended to kind of churn out. prime ministers are one after another. and not only that, but he was also transformative and japanese politics. he made japan and much more significant player in terms of regional and i was even global security. trying to reshape japan's role in the world stage. one of our these top priorities was amending japan's pacifist constitution. which bars the country from hostile acts except in self defense. that the issue was polarizing with polls suggesting many japanese are opposed to any change. still pushed to change the constitution right

up until the end. but his conservatism would lead to new frictions with his neighbors. a spat with south korea of japan's war time legacy resulted in the worst diplomatic and trade dispute for decades that contributed to japan's continuing economic problems. he also stood controversy with his neighbors. his 2013 visit to the jasa cooney shrine which honors japan's war dead among them. some convicted war criminals was widely criticized and he returned several times. but what would turn out to be his last year in office? 2020 brought the devastation of cove at 19. the economy crated. our bay was widely criticized for miss handling the crisis. and soon after he achieved the record as japan's longest serving prime minister came the surprise announcement that he was leaving office early. citing ill health taken

a lot thanks. i took over the administration and i worked hard every single day to revitalize the economy and conduct diplomacy that would protect the national interest during this time. i'm proud of taken on various challenges with the japanese people over but he never left politics remaining a member of the lower house and retaining enormous influence within the liberal democratic party. his tragic and untimely end not only shocked the nation, but his leading sum to ask whether a security lapse contributed to his demise out there is robin bryan has reported extensively from japan. he's currently at the g 20 meeting in barley. he's with us, sir. now live a rob, it seems than that a private assistance obey has died following that attack in the city of nora earlier that's right. as we were preparing to come on just a few minutes ago, a number of international use agencies also kyoto,

new service in japan, and h k, the public broadcast. we're all confirming reports from political party political officials in japan, from ivy's l. d. p. party as confirming that the former prime minister had indeed died, but that has been growing sense. i think of shock, sadness throughout the day as people have realized the gravity of his condition, the seriousness of the whole situation of this appalling attack. we've heard that in expressions here at this g 20 meeting a power ministers in bali. we have heard it in japan and also internationally throughout the day. the chinese foreign ministry during the regular daily briefing in beijing they have spoken about the sadness and the shock at what has taken place . we've heard from australia's prime minister and to the open, easy talking, saying that his thoughts are with family,

with the people of japan from boris johnson, the u. k. got to leopold and saddened from the us ambassador to japan. ron and manuel is talking about the bay as an extend an outstanding leader and an unwavering ally of the usa. i'm so various foreign ministers throughout the day have been speaking lead of course by and to be blink in the u. s. secretary states who is here as they started till the details of this attack, it took place late friday morning in the city of nara and central japan close to the city of osaka bay had just started to give a speech, according to officials when the attack came from behind, he is described as a 41 year old man. local of the city of nora. 2 shots we are told with fired and are they was hit through the neck and chest 1st responders. paramedics who were at the scene,

described him as being saying that there were no signs of life he was described as being in cardiopulmonary arrest. basically, his heart had stopped. now there have been hopes throughout the day that attempts would be made and could have been successful to try to revive him. indeed, the prime minister of japan fo kasheila who had been campaigning as are they had on the campaign trail. there are elections upcoming this weekend for the upper house. he, on his return to tokyo, talked about this barbaric and malicious attack, but said that their doctors were still at making attempts to save our base life. we're still trying to administer blood transfusions. we were told it now seems that all those attempts were in vain. robber, as i said, japan as the country that you know, well, this will come as a huge shock to the people of japan. violence against politicians is extremely rare, isn't it? it certain, it certainly is,

especially in recent decades in japan has a very vibrant democracy at times that democracy, that campaigning can get very heated, can get very angry or with lots of accusations, shouted back and forth. but certainly violence plays very little role. you very rarely see a violence, especially in recent decades. it equally shocking that the and hang a hand gun was involved. there is so little ownership of firearms in japan. we understand that the 41 year old suspects is a member, a former member of the armed forces, arms in japan, and also that the weapon could well have been at home made weapon. i think. what is the most shocking thing about this whole tragedy in japan? and also internationally is that since avi is probably the best known face of japanese politics, he is the longest ever serving japanese prime minister he left off. it's a couple of years ago,

but it's still being very active. the way the japanese political system works is that there are various factions at work in the l d p, which is basically had a continuous, unbroken, almost unbroken. and all 30 in japan, there since the end of the 2nd world war. and there are various factions at work. well, shins o, r b, behind the scenes was still very much in control of the one of those fractions was still a serving member of the lower house. this was upper house elections. he wasn't standing, but he was out campaigning, so would still occasionally go out and campaign using his stature on the stump, making speeches like this. and on this occasion, it does seem that at this event he came into this faithful encounter with his attacker. that does now turn out to be his assassin. all right, rob for the moment, for many thanks to deed that sounds or zeros rama brian, who is a country reporting from the g 20 meeting in barley. i were expecting a, a press conference at the hospital in nata,

where are the former prime minister was being treated? i can just show you the, the scene here. we're waiting for it to get on the way as and what it does. i will bring you that live here on the out 0 will nicknames the prince. sions, obey hale from political royalty. his father was a foreign minister and his grandfather, a prime minister, ave was to pans longest serving leda and was the youngest, postwar prime minister when he was 1st elected in 2006 abbeys. name is forever tied to his economic policies. notice albino makes. it was a way to jumpstart the japanese economy. he resigned in 2020 citing health reasons . in the midst of the coven 19 pandemic. and a series of political scandals. let's bring in michael penn, who is the president of the she gets her news agency, which is an independent musicians. he joins us now live from tokyo. good to have you with us, michael. your thoughts then on the death of the former prime minister?

sions. obey. after these shocking scenes where he was shot earlier today. yeah, well i, so i don't think it's any exaggeration to say that this is a history changing kind of event for japan. ob a is not just some former prime minister, but he is even was until he just died. the 2nd most powerful man in japan, 2nd only to the prime minister for me. ok, shita. he was the head of the largest faction within the ruling party. he was very aggressive and outspoken on sort of conservative right wing military issues. and he was pushing the prime minister very strongly to adopt his policies. so this is and it was not totally out of out of the range of possibilities that are

they may have returned again as a future prime minister. although that was not likely. that was not so totally off the table either. so this is huge. why would anyone, though, have wanted to home him? was he a divisive figure in japan? well, as for the, the, the motives of the individual gunman, we really don't have enough to say right now. but we can definitely say that, but it was a device, a figure that would be one of the key adjectives that i would use for him. he very much represented the conservative and hard write political opinion in japan. and so for those who more or less accepted and supported those policies, he was a hero and the leader for essentially that movement within the country. so for example, the revision of the constitution, the re militarization of the country getting it involved in sort of efforts to

contain china. that was very much the albany position. whereas those obviously who did not, who, who sort of supported the traditional past the post war pacifism or more softer lines from japan. many of them dislike tim or in some cases, even hated. and you have 2 terms as prime minister, the 1st one cut short after are year due to to health problems. and then as we said, he became japan the longest serving prime minister. what sort of prime minister was he? did people feel better off after his is his premiership again much. it's one of those things where it really depends on which side of the political spectrum you ask. i would say that, you know, he was not able to achieve many of the things he wanted to achieve. so for example, a very much wanted to revise the constitution during his term and he could never quite get there. but what he did, i mean,

i think even his strongest critics would say that he provided a, you know, 8 years of a stable leader at the top of japan. he travelled around the world for many, many years. people couldn't remember the name of the job prime minister for dungeon, so i'm sorry to interrupt you, but that that pressure press conferences to go to the hospital in our where i think we've got translation. so let's just listening. that was michael pen by the way, to describe the outline of what has happened. so this is dr. fukushima, i'd like to go through some of the situation. 12 20 pm. the prime minister was carried to the hospital and called cardio pulmonary arrest was the situation when he was brought in. we tried to state, but he was pronounced dead at 5 o 3 p. m. that was

a trauma to 2 places in his body. and it was a trauma to the heart and also one of the trees and there was a lot of bleeding that has led to his there looking for the explanation from the hospital. if you have any questions, please raise your hand. there is a mike that we would like you to use what what was he pronounced? so it's very hard to hear 35 . oh 3 pm. was the time pronounced?

did any other questions about there's another person in the corner there there's in the session raising his hand in the other and it's very hard to hear the question please wait until the mike is with you. this is very difficult to hear. the question was people trauma was here just to the right of vision of the neck and there was 2 locations that there was a trauma was bullies. very small entry points. other questions. so this person here go to please use the mike

mike mike, the use the mike. so then they gave me tony from a he was shocked by how deep was the wound as soon as the depth is deep enough, the read the bullet to reach his heart. thank you. i'm not the

person in front please. and educate anything. i'm not going to do and he was you treated him for just over 4 hours when he was coming into the hospital. how was the situation when he was here right? when he arrived at the hospital, he had cardiopulmonary arrest, it was very difficult. and also we also heard from the ambulance staff that he was, he had already been in problem cardiac arrest when they were up did seem and as he was carried to the hospital, he was in a very severe condition before we undertook treatment the whole. so can you talk to us about the,

the trauma and perhaps some of the intent of the person who shot him if you could guess something from that? no, we can only comment on the trauma and the injury that he had experienced. what are the exact treatments that you executed during the $44.00 of us? we would try to try to stop the bleeding and also a lot of draw blood transfusion in the meantime. another person please the question is how to hear other people's broadcast. know you get there was a lot of fun blood transfusion in on how

much blood did you need for the transfusion? i usually more than 100 units of blood in the con converted to melodies, but the standard $100.00 units for blood transfusion. i think it's hard to hit the question we heard that the family arrived at the hospital. you explain about how you, how you encounter the families and what you talk to them. yes. what we did meet them and we did talk about i talked to the family about the situation that the prime minister was in. yes. the this of the person piece. please use the mike to

nietzsche newspaper. you talk to the family members. you said that with the family, like we heard that his wife arrived. what was the exact situation? who came, could you just briefly describe the situation then? it was all came up. what i could say was the situation of the patient and how that situation has progressed and nothing more frustrating. i was actually, she moon would be done with the bullet still remaining in the body shop to stay during the operation the whole company. we weren't able to confirm the bullets in the body. this is something that we might come after some investigation, but we, we didn't recognize any bullets within the body during the treatment

and ha, who gita. whether it was a to pull that were fired. which bullet was the critical to the injury? this is something that we can't be certain. well i can say is there was to entry wounds to the body or the bullet penetrated the skin and went to the heart and the other one hit the art treat. so what we can deduct is that the, from the, the blood coming from those injuries is led to the death the k,

where exactly what was the entry of the around the neck. and there was a large injury around the the and the bullet direction was straight into into the chest. i got and the other question i'm looking to need to pro costa is all about just to check you got your so there was 2 entry point to meet. so they was trauma in the heart and through the chest and it hit the tree. and where exactly was it through, through the neck, to the right, into location level. and then how did that reach the

tree on trees. and then that had that had led to a lot of bleeding. you talked about operating on him? do we want, did you to, in the operations could use simply explain what you did. so we need to look for where the major bleeding site was. so 1st of all, we looked for the side where there was blood and then we tried to stop the blood. so you were trying to get you trying to find where the bleeding was. yes, exactly, right. so trying to find the location of the bleeding and then trying to stop the bleeding. any other questions, please? in an ha, i'm sure all you do the law course at that chicken key

is to to bleeding. is that right? what are the factors? yes, it's due to be the cause of death with due to beating up and the bullet reached the heart. truthful. so what trauma did you see around the heart? yes, there was a huge trauma to the heart. what kind of injury was it to you? or there was a big whole big injury to the heart to because that the bullet entry was probably going to want to do. but i can give you on my thing to kind of watching tv on us. well, what we can say is the bullet entered the body and course trauma and

the injury caused a lot of blood loss. and that led tuesday any other questions? you need cheap newspaper or he knows all about the state. so the bullet entered the heart, but the entry point was the neck. and then you mentioned that you couldn't find the street no freshman which isn't to let you all, did it penetrate the body with, did you find any other points of injury on the. busy on there got to be on the left show that there was not the injury which we could assume could be the exit of the bullet. so that's an assumption. yes, that's not confirmed but that we've seen and there is no other injury that could just suggest the exit of the bullet. so yes,

that's the current situation. quite as far as we know was you know, just to check the one. when the family arrived at the hospital, you mentioned that the time of death was 5 o 3 and then the family arrived around 4 o'clock. i seemed to read and were they able to be there before the announcement of the dance? well, since arrival at the hospital park, mister was already in a cardio pulmonary arrest situation and the family weren't able to meet with the patient. thank you very hard to hear the question. right?

they were to entry points and the entreat distance was perhaps on the depth with something like 5 centimeters of that particular injury. question is hard to hit on the whole and on normal solar by you know, i know, as i've been saying before, and all i've said to the family is the situation of the patient. and that's, that's all i was able to talk to through the family when they arrived at the hospital 0. are there any other questions? you may re so you can go by looking

up. were you able to stop the blood completely? and it was, that was the reason why they were some degree of control with the full blood, but because he had lost so much today, blood clotting capability of the body had been lost. so i don't think we could say that we could stop most of the blood loss. there was a certain degree that we were able to stop the blood loss, but it wasn't enough to keep him alive. was my in each to do, but i didn't want to leave him a r e d. ringback i've heard that the people at the location.