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for my japanese prime minister sions obey has died out to being shot at an event in the city of nevada. please say they have arrested a 41 year old man who allegedly shot ave, with a handmade done ah hello, i'm emily anguish. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up for my favorite presidency platter, and vice president michelle flattening. have been cleared of corruption judges by a swiss coach and in politics. no one is remotely indispensable. british prime minister boris johnson, resigns, but wants to remain in power until his party alexis success. ah,
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ah, welcome to the program. japan is in a state of shock to night after the former prime minister shins obey was assassinated. he died in hospital after man shot him as he campaigned for sundays elections to the upper house, is actually a name reports on the killing of japan's longest serving later. a shot to the heart by a man with a home made goin routine campaign speech ending in an unprecedented assassination. former japanese prime minister sions obeyed, died friday morning in the western city of nora. he was campaigning for upper house elections scheduled for sunday seconds after our bay collapsed officers tackled the suspect. police say 41 year old tad through ja yamagata. he told them he was disgruntled with abbe and aimed to kill him. it was a rare occurrence in
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a country with a low crime rate and some of the world's most restrictive gun laws. emma came men o q. so we cannot accept that this violent act took place during an election, the foundation of democracy. in the strongest terms, i condemn this attack and to the 67 year old was a dynamo of japanese politics and a 3rd generation politician. his grandfather was prime minister, his father, foreign minister with abby distinguished himself as the longest serving prime minister with 2 terms in office. he brought stability to a political system that tended to kind of churn out. prime ministers are one after another. i'm not only dad, but he was also transformative and japanese politics. he made japan a much more significant player in terms of regional and i would say, even global security. abbe promoted policies dubbed ib nomics,
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intended to boost the economy. he wanted to strengthen japan's geo political clout, by amending its post world war to pacifist constitution. it proved polarizing among the public and his efforts failed. during his last year in office, he was criticized for his handling of the coven 19 pandemic. because as i say, i've worked hard every single day to revitalize the economy and to conduct diplomacy that would protect the national interest during this time. i am proud to have taken on various challenges with the japanese people. oh oh, though i be resigned in 2020, citing poor health. the following year he returned to japanese politics and continued to wield influence within the liberal democratic party. a man who couldn't shed his political skin assassinated for it. natasha rename l g 0. and rob mcbryan has more on the reaction of japan's prime minister from yoke,
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is shita for me. ok. she that really finds himself an extraordinary situation. finding himself confronted, i think, by a nationwide grief trauma shock and offering off, i think a mix of salis comfort, but also with a sense of defiance. when he 1st arrived back in tokyo, as soon as he realized how grave the situation was, he returned to tokyo. he like others, had been campaigning for these upper house elections. when he 1st spoke to reporters, he appeared visibly shocked, tearful at describing. this is a barbaric and malicious act. later on when it was confirmed that she had indeed died, he offered a more defiant tone, saying that these elections must go ahead, must be seen to go ahead. the campaigning will resume tomorrow, saturday and japanese people will go to the polls on sunday saying that, you know, you cannot give way to what he calls political violence. that the election process,
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the campaigning, has to continue and paying tribute to ship a personally as a statesman as a political leader, as a friend to him personally, but also as a mentor. he was the longest serving prime minister, probably the best known figure in politics, both domestically and japan, and also worldwide. and the figure who now is no longer with us. and rob was reporting from the g 20 foreign ministers, making in barley where many countries have expressed their shock at abbeys. death. the u. s. secretary of state antony blank and said it was not only a loss for japan, but for the world. a probably survey. so social such strong personal was
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clearly greater or also. so ours had one office relationship in our new rice that g 20 meeting in indonesia has been overshadowed by tensions around russia's invasion of ukraine. moscow's top diplomat, sergei lab, rob skipped a number of sessions on friday afternoon as well as the official dinner. jessica washington reports from bali when russia sir gay lovegrove arrived at the t 20 foreign ministers meeting his hosting and each is written. omar sooty greeted him warmly. members of the media would not as welcoming i this gathering marks the 1st time g. 20 foreign ministers have met since russia
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invaded ukraine. and the war has dominated the meeting lever of accused his western counterparts of russia phobia and said they are deliberately not looking for common ground on economic issues. lo, it was not us who abandoned old pointers was the local states. all that so local, so ukraine invited as a special guest by indonesia has accused russia of deliberately stopping the world by disrupting supply chains. it says it's beautiful to talk about food and energy security without calling for accountability. it just the regular mailing of the world with a starvation, the feminine. a witches in hulu, which is cruel and witches, which doesn't live in it, principles of humanity, and, and the principles of peaceful coexistence. however, the gathering has also reaffirmed that moscow was not without friends. lovegrove
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has held several bilateral meetings, most significantly with china's wandering. indonesia had hoped to keep the focus of its g 20 presidency on post pandemic economic recovery. but the war in ukraine has overshadowed that goal. host indonesia has urged g 20 countries to work together to find global solutions to global challenges. city washington out 0. bali to a football most senior former official said laugher, and michelle play, chaney, have been acquitted of corruption. both without not guilty by court in switzerland . the case assented on a payment of $2000000.00 from faith simply cheney with a blot has approval back in 2011. both men have long denied any wrong doing sure. in this case, i am not in a sent in my life, but in this case i am innocent in which cases are you're not going to stop your
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stuff. basically, if you want to use it when i speak of those, this food, the food was never, never had that me and to show you have never met the tribune as a normal could be not. give me a great because and gavin hamilton is an international football journalist and the editor of sport business. he was taken aback by the verdict. so surprised, i think that they've been acquitted platter, as always maintained his innocence. this is a case that goes back many years, of course, brought back to the payments were literally made in in 2010. he's now a very old man. he's 86. you can see from the pictures outside the cool that he's, he's not in the best of health, but this is he,
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he would reclaim that he is innocent. he's been off to this for a long time. but it, but it's, it's come to lights in his, in his look very light in his last class and he still wants to return to football and play a role in football. and he may well now seek some sort of office with him football . so they will be pleased with the fed, obviously, and the law is but it's, it's been a messy affair. expose a lot of the shenanigans inside ski for and the way the business was done within c for many years on the platters regime. and we must to get the butter over saw a system fee for that. it involved enormous amount of corruption. we've seen so many tv deals, people convicted in, in america, of crimes and corruption. and many people still awaiting justice in, in, in the united states because of the fee for gate investigation. so this is a huge and a long drawn out for britain's government has said it will continue to deliver pre
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grade policies despite the resignation of forest johnson as conservative party. later johnson says he'll stay on as prime minister in a k. take a capacity until the party, alexia. success of the stage is now set for leadership race that could take awakes . alright, let's close live now to pull. brennan, who's in london for us. hello, they pull bars. johnson wants to stay on in and take it capacity, but will that actually happen? well, there's no way that there is a mechanism for the conservative party to asti drac him out of number 10 downing street. so i think over the period of, to day they've come to the acceptance that frankly, the best way of getting this all done and dusted is to expedite the process of selecting his successor. that won't happen, or it certainly won't start until next week. when the 1922 committee of the conservative party will meet festival, to elected. it's new executive. and secondly,
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to set the time table for the rounds of voting that have to take place in order to get 2 candidates from the existing parliamentary party to go up against each other and then go out to the party faithful. look, the party membership around the country for them to have their say, and that still could take many, many weeks. there is a 2nd aspect to all of this though, and that's in the last hour the labor party, the opposition party, suggest armor. the leader of the party has said that next week he will try to get a confidence vote in parliament against the that the conservative government. and if he wins that, that would force a general election as a risky won't win. because these things generally tend to prompt co conservative m p 's to coalesce out of loyalty around the party, regardless of the fact that they're just deposed their leader. and it's likely that in fact kissed arm as attent will fail. that said, though, he can then use that as a stick to beat the conservative party with when it comes to a general election in due course. so there's a lot of moving parts,
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even though as you see, the feverish atmosphere of 1st day has given way to something of a political load here on friday. yes, it's at least a lot more quiet than yesterday. paul, what are likely scenarios from here on in well, you're going to have a set of conservative m, p 's and former cabinet. minnesota, perhaps even current cabinet ministers, putting their names forward for selection as the leadership, as the next prime minister, the process whistles it down over a period of around $1012.00 days. it's up to the 9 to try the 2 committee. they could truncate that process if they wanted to make the votes a lot closer together. nominators tuesday, thursday, tuesday. i'm and then it goes out to the party. so i think realistically, we're still looking at several weeks. i 70 into september before boris johnson. his successor is named under 4 boys. johnston is forced to move all his belongings out of number 10. yes, it could be long,
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few months. thank you very much. paul brennan live for us in london. thank you. still ahead on al jazeera, why a group of catholic nuns has been expelled from nicaragua and tennessee, his own ship law becomes the 1st african woman to reach a grand slam. final usa. ah hello. we have seen some flooding recently into parts. if north korean northern areas of the country seeing some rather wait, whether some bands of cloud still streaming through here and that will crash, he make his way towards japan. i rode tropical storm. that's trying to pull out of the way. but we are still dragging some moisture in across a good part of japan. sunshine. his shout here take out around 33 degrees celsius.
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it will be hot. it's going to humid while the sticky weather continuing. here over the next couple of days, a soccer was similar conditions, notice wet or weather coming in across northeast in areas of china. once again, easing over towards yellow sea, heavy bursts of rain likely to cause some localized flooding. further, se, january dry, but we can't rule out the possibility of a few showers down towards hong kong and high nan. plenty of showers. meanwhile, across much of indo china as an ally, the shower is still in place there across the philippines where to where the will make its way towards southern parts of vietnam. as we go through the next couple of days to while the wet to it's eastern areas of indonesia, malaysia, more the way of sunshine than showers. now penny a shower, longest bells of re monsoon rays, of course, across a good part of india. lots of cloud here. now, plenty of shower zone to southwestern parts of pakistan, and that is likely to cause some flooding ah,
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has died after he was shot during a campaign event in the city of nara. he was 67 rushes, foreign minister has come face to face with some of moscow's faces. critics at attains the g 20 gathering and indonesia, evasion of ukraine has overshadowed the meeting with survey lab, rob skipping out on working sessions and the official dinner and to affable as my senior former official set blanca and michelle. latina have been acquitted of corruption, vice with court. the case was sent it on a payment of $2000000.00 from faithful to play, chaney, with black, his approval back in 2011 or now on our top story and lading. politicians have been reacting to sions obeys death with shock and sadness in his statement. you as president joe biden, expressed outrage and sadness over the killing. china reacted to be sassy, nation, through its embassy in tokyo. it had made contributions to improving china with
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japan relations. the south korean president jeans soak yom described the shooting as an unforgivable, active crime, french president to menu micron, said japan had lost a great prime minister who dedicated his life to the country and worked to ensure order in the world while india prime minister ranger murdy reflected on his race, amazing, the bobbing, saying he was wishy and inciteful as always. marty sent heartfelt condolences to his family and to the japanese people. short time ago, i spoke to robert kelly who's a professor of political science and diplomacy, pusan national university. he says, ave, had a significant impact on japan's foreign policy. right. so the americans really liked. we really liked them a lot actually because emphasized a lot of the themes that the americans have been turning towards any stage in the last decade or so, particularly regarding china before a japan and had some kind of like a carnival or sort of merry go round prime ministers and stay for a year or 2 and,
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and go. and there was kind of a lot of instability up at the top in japan and the americans weren't really quite sure the japanese were going to get on board this push against china. and i'll be really swung behind that. we also talk about arming japan better in order to actually get to really contest china's role. basically the naval power, any station. this is also bumping american one for a long time because the japanese military is actually quite small. i think of a really are pushed japan towards a recognition share by the american that, that china and, and our old plan, a collision course over the course over the, just for the structure of the station politics in the next several decades. right. it doesn't have like a war or anything tomorrow, but it does mean that japan and china are now more or less than a competition. they are balancing against one another. and this is something that i'll be forced. the japanese public really hard, do you to sign up for? if you agree with me. traditionally in japan, japanese foreign policy has been kind of restrained sophistic. the idea was what the american can a lot of the kinds of things and the americans and the things of japanese since 994
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. and i kind of do this for you guys. gotta get more out front on this and i'll pick that up and went with it. and i think that is probably going to be his biggest legacy is the geo political turn is other stuff like the comics, like i'll be nomics and didn't really work out well. so my sense is that foreign policy will be the thing that he's remember, for most at least a dozen people had been killed in an attack at a medical clinic in the democratic republic of congo. it happened late on thursday night in the town of lou in north kiva, province, around 40 kilometers from the city of benny. local nessa say some patients in the health center were burned to death. witnesses say and to group from a neighboring uganda, known as the allied democratic forces is responsible for the attacks. became a fancy as former president has returned home for the 1st time since he was deposed in an uprising 8 years ago. bless, comport was invited to discuss the country's future with the military jones that
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seized power in january and other for my heads of state. nicholas hark reports. behind the tinted windows of this car, as the former president of ricky fosset bless, compounder, re returning to the country. he ruled for 27 years. the man who fled from the presidential palace after a popular uprising 8 years ago as received a hero's welcome hundreds of supporters greeted him at the airport. we were working also above all, restrict you. we assume by re supporters as one piece the research was is the new can be leader, colonel of the me been who took power to come in january who invited compound to take part in they we conciliation reading with previous presidents. most of them participated in over throwing him in 2014 at the time to meet with an officer of the presidential guard taking orders from compound before he left the country. the
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former strong man has been living in exile in neighboring ivory coast. in april, a court in walker do sentence compared to life in prison for the killing of the pan african leader and former brookie to be president to myself nor justice. no peace and booking i need justice before any kind of reconciliation. so bless, going to come. you know, like the favor save, you know, he must be arrested when he arrived at the airport. a book of us are because he's guilty so he need to go to. yeah, but for me, but it seems justice can wait. brianna fossa was battling as search of attacks from arm groups linked to isolated cayden, forcing millions of people to flee their homes. barry is part of the solution. he could help bring an end to divisions and enable military leaders to regain control . during his time in office,
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he was an ally to the west and dealing with armed groups and negotiating the release of western hostages with no ed insight to the violence. khobar his supporters are perhaps astound check about the peace and stability of his regime. because hawk al, jazeera former and golden president jose eduardo da santos has died at the clinic in barcelona. he was receiving medical treatment for prolong to illness just santos road and goal. if any me 40 years and stepped down in 2017. he died at the age of $79.00. from the middle it takes a look back at his life. off his retirement from politics and then go 92018 to say a daughter to santos had been living in spain. its they had been receiving medical treatment for an unknown illness. relations between the former president and his successor shall or in so remain tense because of the anti corruption campaign led by their in so much of the campaign. targeted members of the census family and
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their associate centers received many international awards with commitment to anti colonialism and promotion of peace negotiations. he was praised for developing and gold as oil rich economy and attracting significant foreign investment. but some accused him of being a dictator and creating one of the most corrupt governments in africa. the former president began his political career as a member and fighter of the anti colonial movement, the popular movement for the liberation of in go low m p l. a after goal is independence from portugal in 1975. the son just became and called us 1st prime minister. he became president after the death of president augustine nato. in 1979 . he tried to improve relations with the way, including the united states, which did not recognize the in p l. a lead government. in the early 19 ninety's, he abandoned marxist leninism and ordered the what's called of cuban troops, who had been in a go lessons a late 19 seventies. after years of civil war in 1991,
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the santa signed a peace agreement with the national union for the total independence of kohler and agree to multi party elections. first, in 2016 the announced his plans to retire from politics. he was succeeded by m p l, a, vice president lar, and so a year later, the main piece of santa stepped down as a day and 2019 and went into exile in spain. he only returned to the goal of once and 2021. before returning to barcelona. in the philippines nobel prize winner maria restaurant has lost her appeal against a libel conviction. the code decision was announced by her new side wrapped le, saying the move, we can the ability of journalists to hold power to account. the former scene in correspondent is facing a prison sentence. about $27.00 you rest is a vocal critic of the former president rodrigo duty nicaragua,
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the government has expelled a group of catholic nuns in one critic se part of a crackdown on anyone suspected of opposing the president. the nuns are accused of breaching new funding laws in their work with children and abused women, latin america editor lucy in human reports. these buses are seen taking 18 nuns from the order founded by mother teresa of cal cooter to nicaragua and southern border to be expelled. the nuns had been working with the poor and with children with learning disabilities until the legislature controlled by president. daniel ortega sandinista party, stripped them of their legal status last week. there the latest casualty of ortega's unrelenting offensive against hundreds of n g o's, and the catholic church, whom he calls qu mongers, and devils in robes. the stun nuns were received in neighbouring costa rica, where a mass was held to show them support. when does the ar msr one?
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when you love god, he's always present and transformation. they love them, but when your values run counter to his values, as long as it will be of causal persecution. but because the bishop was alluding to daniella, take us campaign against the catholic church, which includes the expulsion of the vatican ambassador and the imprisonment of a nicaraguan priest. wow. the nuns thanked costa rica for it's hospitality, but said they didn't want to stay. i had a panic that we feel deep pain for being expelled from nicaragua. we want to return to what we left behind people in need and 3 communities where we worked on my the i run italy, they were expelled by the same president to in the 1980s embraced mother teresa and promised that her order would always be welcome in nicaragua, now with the nuns gone, ortega awaits the impending arrival of 230 russian troops. planes,
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and ships for quote purposes of training and law enforcement. ortega is a staunch ally of lady mir putin, which in the current global context, her raises red flags in the region. her outlet that went out, i think while she's young, the agreement puts ports, airports, and military installations at the disposal of the russians. it's not the $180.00 or so soldiers that matter. it's the 1572 you russian tanks bought in 2016 which breaks the reasonable balance of power in central america is one way. nicaragua is also reportedly planning to replace its cold war era to sugar rocket launchers and fighter planes with new russian models. russian state media commented that it was time that russian weapons got closer to american cities. as for the nuns, it's unlikely that their prayers to return to nicaragua will be answered soon to see and human al jazeera to his he is own,
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