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shock and grief in japan after former prime minister, shin, so abbe as assassinated, the campaign rally. ah, please say they've arrested a 41 year old man who allegedly shot abbe with a hand made gun. ah, i'm the barca this is al jazeera life, doha also coming up. why don't you talk? russia's foreign minister feels the heat at a g 20 meeting. as moscow is accused of causing a global food crisis, the former head of world football set ballasa and actually for president michelle botany have been found not guilty at a ford trial in switzerland. ah

aah bell. japan's longest serving lead a sion so abbe as died after he was shot during a campaign event in the city of norah abbe wanted to build a prosperous nation and change the constitution to allow japan to assert itself more strongly in world affairs. natasha name reports. i shut 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 year yamagata me told them he was disgruntled with abbe and aimed to kill him. it was a rare occurrence in a country with

a low crime rate and some of the world's most restrictive gun laws. emma can men or 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 until 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 abbey, distinguished himself as the longest serving prime minister with 2 terms in office . he broad 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 much more significant player in terms of regional and i was a even global security. abbe promoted policies dubbed ib nomics,

intended to boost the economy. he wanted to strengthen japan's geo political clout, by amending its post world war 2 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. is as i say, i've worked hard every single day to revitalize the economy and conduct diplomacy that would protect the national interest during this time. i am proud of taken on various challenges with the japanese people. okay. although i be resigned in 2020 siding, 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 name l g 0. were leading politicians around the world have been reacting to. sions obeys death with shock

and sadness in a statement. you as president joe biden, expressed outrage and sadness over his kenning. china reacted to the assassination through its embassy in tokyo. it said abbe had made contributions to improving china. japan relations, the south korean president unit. so you all described the shooting as an unforgivable act of crime. french president, my new microns said japan had lost a great prime minister who dedicated his life to his country and worked in short order in the world. and india's prime minister nor end remedy reflected on his recent meeting with abbe saying he was witty and inciteful as always. moody sent heartfelt condolences to his family, and the japanese people. michael hurston, is head of asia practice sit the eurasia group. he says, shinto abbe has progressive policies and built good relations with the west. prime minister abe's goal was in some ways to make japan more of a normal country to step out of this somewhat confined role that had been imposed

on japan when the constitution was drafted by shortly after world war 2. but he was also responding to security threats, as who said, in particular to the rise of china, more assertive china, which was an issue that really occupied a lot of abe's attention. and was the central part of this. well, ave had really a tremendous impact on us policy in asia region. he was either the architect or at least the leading proponent of a lot of the key initiatives that shape how the u. s. is, is interacting with asia today. that includes this notion of an indo pacific that brings in india as part of, of the countries that the u. s. and japan were closely west. it includes a leadership of that t p, p, a trade deal. and he was remarkably effective in dealing with trump in ways that

many of other u. s. allies failed to do. i think he was a very savvy about how he treated trump and it was quite effective the, the you esther pan relationship state quite strong throughout the trial period. and it's very strong today. it's a 20 meeting and indonesia has been overshadowed by tensions around russia's invasion of ukraine. jessica washington reports from barley when russian think a lot from the right at the t 20 foreign ministers meeting his host. see denise. his read no more. 30 greeted him warmly and as if the media would notice welcoming, why? oh, he's gathering monks the 1st time g 20 foreign ministers have met since russia invaded to ukraine. and the war has dominated the meeting. leverett accused his western counterparts of russia phobia and said they are deliberately not looking for common ground on economic issues. no,

it was not us to abandon all gone. things was due like the states. oh, that's all they consume. ukraine invited as a special guest mind denisia 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 cooling for accountability. it just the regular mailing of the world with a starvation with a feminine of witches in hulu, which is cruel and witches, which doesn't meet any principles of humanity and any principles of peaceful coexistence. however, the gathering has also reaffirmed that moscow was not without friends. lap rope has held several bi lateral meetings, most significantly with china's one named indonesia had hoped to keep the focus of its d. 20 presidency on post pandemic, economic recovery. but the war in ukraine has overshadowed that go host indonesia

has urged g 20 countries to work together to find a global solutions to global challenges. jessica washington out 0. bali the u. s. president has signed an executive order to boost protection for abortion and contraception access. speaking of the white house in the last hour, he hits out at an out of control supreme court and said the fastest way to restore abortion rights was to pass a federal law. and now my republican friends are talking about getting the congress to pass a national ban. the extreme positions overtaken. some of the states that will me right to choose will be illegal nationwide. if in fact they succeed, let me tell you something. as long as i'm present it won't happen is i'll veto it.

so the choice is clear. if you wanna change the circumstance for women and even little girls in this country, please go out and vote. was kind of mike hannah, who joins us live from washington. d. c, mike, you were listening in to that a full briefing by joe biden. and how does the white house hope that this executive order will go about safeguarding reproductive rights in light of the moose recently by the supreme court? while it's an attempt to ameliorate the impact of the supreme court decision in the dogs case, which remove roe vs wade and the protections for women that that to long standing piece of legislation provided president biden making very clear that he's a structed, the justice department to protect women who are going for medical access, who are going to abortions? these instructed the health secretary to protect women who are seeking urgent medical help. even in states as that,

i forbid the abortion issue. so these are his attempts to try and make it better. the impact that the at a robot, the jobs decision has had on the country as a whole. but the president admitting very clearly and that this is the limit of his power. this in response to pressure from fellow democrats who been seeking that tend to be more forceful in terms of his response to the supreme court decision. but president biden making very clear that this is a limit of what he can do as a president. it's now up to congress to pass legislation to bring back roe the wade . a mike have of course, a deeply political dimension to this as well, or biden urging americans to vote for the democrats in the mid term elections in november to help them bring a law to overturn that the supreme court order will, can tell us well, this is what president biden is basing his argument on is that to repeal of the court's decision to return roe vs wade to the country's constitution,

then one has to get a congressional law to actually to serve. in other words, congress has a 3rd access of power within the united states would be able to overrule the supreme court decision in a vote by some 2 thirds. so president biden making very, very clear his belief that the way in which the supreme court's decision can be reversed is by americans to vote for pro choice candidates in the mid term elections. in november. he says that just need to be a few flips in the senate, a few flips in the house to enable congress to get the majority needed to pass legislation, repealing the supreme court decision. so president biden making very clear that he's done what he can. it's now up to the people to enforce that it will with a vote in the mid terms. and on that note, the highly respected few organization recently released to poll,

which indicates that 62 percent of americans support abortion, partially or completely. so this is a significant figure that what president biden is saying here, particularly in his intense criticism of the supreme court. this is supported according to this opinion. paul, by the majority of americans, or mike, thanks is always mike hannah, they're in washington dc. now the family of murdered al jazeera journalist, sharina black la has called on the u. s. president to meet them on his visit to jerusalem next week. they want joe biden to order an f. b. i investigation into her death showroom was shot in the head. bice, ready for service while she was on assignment at janine and the occupied west bank on may. the 11th. ouch is here. a media network continues to demand a rapid, independent and transparent investigation into sharina, killing. still a head here on al jazeera europe, braces for a summer of travel chaos as airlines struggle with staffing shortages. former fee

for president set bladder and vice president michelle patina are cleared of corruption charges by a swiss court. ah, the journey has begun. the 3 full world camp is on its way to catherine book. your travel package to day. hello, we have some rather wet weather. the forecast for the middle east over the next couple days. we have seen read some very heavy rain in recent days. lots of clouds showing of course, southern parts of the arabian peninsula. yemen southern air is a saudi arabia, could still see some rather wet weather. the southwesterly monsoon, driving showers, flooding rains over toward southern parts of pakistan and along the west and get this wetter weather that we have into a mile will creep a little further northwards up towards the straits of homos as we go on through sunday. and that is likely to cause fairbetter flooding easing up towards the u. a,

as you can see, might ever see a spot or 2 of rain here in kata. not too much, but still a possibility, nevertheless, further north. well, hot sunshine continues as per usual plenty of hot sunshine across north africa getting up to 40 celsius therefore cairo tad cooler, warm enough there, batted around $33.00 degrees, good rashes showers across a tropical belt, easing over towards west africa. some pockets of heavy, heavy rain. they're just around the liberia. to sierra leone. some parts of nigeria also sing some thunder showers from time to time, as per usual, as the south africa, southern africa, and fat, good deal of dry weather, few showers to the east, and wet weather, coming in to the south. casa air, with official airlines of the journey. frank assessments, it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem in lebanon, it's actually structural lebanon needs, and you also contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions,

international communities on the goal of this my security, and that creates a government has knowledge to be seen in depth analysis of the days global headlines. this is going to be very hard for people to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, no, it's actually got 2 members inside story on al jazeera. ah ah, you're watching out a 0, a reminder of our top stories this. our rushes foreign minister has come face to face with some of moscow's face. his critics, at a tense g 20 gathering in indonesia invasion of ukraine has overshadowed the meeting force. johnson has resigned as u. k prime minister, but many

a calling for him to leave immediately. johnson says he will stay on that number 10 downing street until a new leader of the conservative party is alexis, japan's former prime minister, shin. so ab a has died after he was short, julia campaign events in the city of nora. he was 67th law latin american editor, lucy newman, has more from santiago, was not called for extreme strong punishment against the person who killed the former japanese leader. and he has called for 3 days of national mourning that goes a lot further. and the reason probably is that this kind of a of a killing is something that he knows something about who remember that he was almost killed himself during the campaign rally when he was running for president. 4 years ago. he was stabbed by someone in the crowd. he knew very nearly died. he had to have, i think, 3 operations after the initial,

after it was initially taken to hospitals. so it, so his company that he feels very personally, i think that i think that could explain what one might call a very emotional reaction to the assassination of avi and the calling for 3 days of national morning in latin, america's largest country, largest economy was not is not the only one who's outraged and shocked by the, by the killing of this for all over latin america. here in chile, the president called the got her crime in argentina, president alberto fernandez called him a great friend of argentina. remember that none, this is a left wing of politician quite the opposite of it. and yet he said that he had, he wished his loved ones well and condolences all around has been more than 24 hours since boys johnson resigned is prime minister, but many a calling for him to leave. immediately. johnston says he will stay on at 10

downing street until a new leader of the conservative party is elected, and that's not likely to happen till the autumn. this is now set the stage for a fresh leadership race. well that there is no such thing as a caretaker. prime minister, the prime minister has made it clear he will stand down from his role as party leader. i'm prime minister when his successor is chosen. but ultimately, as we have seen with the tragic and terrible news coming out of japan, the situation in a ukraine, the issues with food pricing around the world, particularly mac label, south plus inflationary pressures. here in the u. k. there is plenty both internationally and domestically that we have to get on way of and ultimately our duty from the prime minister and all of us in government is to focus on the primary role that we have, which is providing a service to the people of this country, here's paul baton with most of london. as you can see from the empty grass outside

of westminster here the feverish political scenes of thursday have given way to something of a political lull here on friday. but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty going on . boris johnson remains at number 10 downing street and shows no sign of willingly leaving until his successor is appointed. but that doesn't mean that the process doesn't start pretty quickly. the 1922 committee of the conservative party will meet at the start of next week to set the time table for the succession and people are ordered to putting their names forward to succeed boris johnson. the labor party in opposition is wanting to try to force the hand of the conservative party labor will put down a motion of no confidence in the government next week in order to try to. busy outburst johnson, much earlier than the autumn time table that he would prefer. there's a possibility though, that that might simply cause conservative m p 's to coalesce around their soon to be deposed leaders. so labor might actually lose that vote. nevertheless,

they would then prob, probably use that as political capital to beat the conservatives with when it does come finally to a general election, while seizing the moment the wax work museum, madame to swords has taken its own shore to the outgoing british prime minister. it added an amusing vacancy signed to attend downing street display behind a smiling wax work of boys johnson. yes, that is barshan some. the museum also places figure out sort of jobs center in blackpool at least a dozen people have 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 may in north keyvi province around 40 kilometers from the city of benny. some patients were reportedly burned to death. witnesses say an arm group from neighboring uganda, known as the allied democratic forces is responsible for the attack. former and golden president jose edwardo da santos has died at a clinic in barcelona. he was receiving medical treatment for

a prolonged illness. for santas ruled angola for nearly 40 years and stepped down in 2017. he died age 79. for me, the miller takes a look back at his life after his retirement from politics and and go line 2018. does a or do i did a santos had been living in spain. it's there had been receiving medical treatment for an unknown illness relations between the former president and his successor. shallower in so remain tense because of the anti corruption campaign. led by lorenzo much of the campaign, targeted members of the dissenters family and their associates received many international award please commitment to enter colonialism and promotion of peace negotiations. he was praised for developing and gold as oil, which 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 an go low m p l. a. after and goal is independence from portugal in 1975. the centers became and callers 1st prime minister. he became president after the death of president augustine, jo nato, in 1979. he tried to improve relations with the way, including the united states, which did not recognize the emperor led government in the early 19 ninety's. he abandoned marks as leninism, and all that 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 cents assigned a peace agreement with the national union for the total independent kohler and agree to multi party election. first. in 2016, he 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 dissenters stepped down as the leader in 2019 and went into exile in spain. he only returned to

a goal of once and 2021 before returning to barcelona. the philippines nobel peace prize winner maria ressa has lost her appeal against the cyber libel conviction. it was announced by her new site wrapper, which said the decision weakens the ability of journalist to hold power to account . the former c n n correspondent is facing a prison sentence of up to 7 years. rosa is a vocal critic of the former president. she faces at least 6 other court cases. airport workers in paris of caught off their pounds to strike this weekend, but they've been out more strikes to come in the weeks ahead, staff shortages and the rising price of fuel are all so threatening to disrupt some, a travel in europe. natasha butler reports from the french capital. some paris airport workers voted to end their protest after talks with management showed signs of progress south of staged, a number of workouts in the past month to demand better pay and conditions. they

say they are overworked and underpaid. cit, off my sudle, did you go to salt? inflation is soaring, but our salaries have not increased. so what we have been asking for is an extra $300.00 a month for every year. port worker with a number of flights canceled or delayed in recent weeks. some travelers are taking precautions. it was how can i have thought we've come early in case we're stuck here? you have to plan for these things in advance. we were aware of the strike. so we arrived earlier because we were worried that the post pandemic makes of staff shortages and inflation have led to similar strikes in some other european countries in spain, cabin crew for some low cost airlines, a planning walk out. so the pay this month, while scandinavian airlines is drastically cut it services because of an ongoing pilot strike. meanwhile, british airways is cancel 10000 some flights because of a lack of workers with borders. reopening and coven restrictions,

lifting demand for travel, is surging. here in paris, international travelers are back in big number for the 1st time in nearly 2 years. even as the airport workers demands are met, this expert says that staff shortages and likely to remain a problem for some time, jo, are player jimmy airports. he lost more than $10000.00 workers from ground staff to pilots during pandemic on flight. currently they have so there are huge shortages problem is that you can't hire these workers from one day to another. was many training and they certainly won't be operational in time for the soul. after being grounded for so long, many people are enjoying being able to get off again for work or pleasure. but the ongoing strikes and planned protests suggest it could be a turbulent summer for travelers. natasha butler al jazeera paris. at least 10 people are presumed dead and dozens are missing. after a heavy downpour caused flash floods an indian administered kashmir,

it happened in the jammy districts during the annual month long arm rast yashira hindu pilgrimage. police are the scene carrying out rescue operations are many of the injured have been airlifted to hospital. shanicea is on sir bir, has become the 1st african woman to reach a title decide at a grand slam in the open air up turbos beat. germany's touchy maria in 3 sets to make it through to saturdays wimbledon final. a korean has already seen her become the 1st hour player to win a tournament at the elite w t a tool. well, number 2 will now take on ellena river keena and the final woke up the fans back. and she nicea hobbies showing their support. was it the sad the alice m? yeah, al me, she is the minister of happiness in all fields and i have the honor to give her this title as a resident abroad. she cannot imagine the joy when you meet people, and they ask you about the chinese young woman about alms jabber. i feel very proud

on one shabbos named minister of happiness because she made us happy in these economic conditions. but miss milan stoopa, she gives a wonderful image of to nicea and she sends a message to young people there when you trust yourself and you set a goal in your life, you can reach it has also been there. i while he may be 86, but sad bladder says he still has the stamina to return to a job and football. the former head of the sports world governing body has been found not guilty. and for trial in switzerland. his old colleague at fif michelle patina was also cleared her asthma reports even before as swiss court found him not guilty of fraud sap ladder, the former had a world football, appeared confident of what lay ahead. i am not in a sent in my life, but in this case i am innocent in which cases are you not innocent? stoplight your pit? stop big now exactly like you are. the former feet,

the president and the x had of european football. michelle play teeny, were accused of illegally organizing a $2000000.00 payment in 2011. bladder said the fee with repeating his work as a consultant and the court found in their favor. both men were bound by 5th and 2015 as part of a wider ethics investigation. moved that effectively ended the careers of 2 of world football's most powerful men. yes, icon for 7 years ago, the thief decided to banish me from all football related activities. i who have devoted my life to football, who have always given everything to football as a manager, as a coach, fee for made that decision. then they treated me like a correct person, a money laundering, a forger. i won't let that go. so we'll see what happens next. we'll think about it, but i'm not letting go of anything live. i'm from the fair her i'm still here now, and this is a decision. it keeps read. not only more credit because i filled out. so he ever did. he actually no stamina to look for

fever to local football, but come back for either man won't be easy, particularly for blotter, who was 86, his ill health caused delays during the trial. he's been off to this for a long time of but it's it's, it's come to light in his, in his library like to in his life. platinum. i still wants to return to football. i'm and play a role in football and he may well now seek some sort of office with him football. it's been a messy affair, is expose a lot of the the shenanigans inside schieffer. we mustn't forget the butter. oversaw a system, a fee for that in devote enormous amount of corruption with federal prosecutor say they will exam the details of the verdict before deciding whether to appeal the court's decision at that far is smile out is era ah.