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former japanese prime minister, sions, obey is shot and killed as a campaign event is death since shock waves around the wiles of 41 year old man has been apprehended and has confessed to the killing. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy in london, you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. a show down at the u. n. over a vital aid corridor between turkey and northwest syria, millions of lives hang in the balance. the u. s. president signed an executive order safeguarding abortion access, labeling the country supreme court out of control and that nicaragua was president intensifies his crackdown dissent. spelling 80 nuns from the audio founded by mother teresa. ah,

hello and welcome to the program. all japan is a nation in shock. after the former prime minister sions obey was shot and killed at a campaign event. on friday. albedo is known for trying to revive japan's stagnant economy with his op and no mix financial policies while increasing his countries. international presence and influence in the region is asher. kani reports a shot to the heart by a man with a home made gone. a routine campaigns, 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 yo yo ma gamino 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. ema, tim men all shook you 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 abbey, 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 and not only that,

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 are the 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. cuz 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 are though 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 her name l. jazeera. or is some information now emerging around the assassination japanese police name? the suspect is 41 year old ted sawyer yama, gar, me. it works at japan's maritime self. defense forces for 3 years, but now appears to be unemployed. but he said he believed our bay was part of a specific organization which she, i'm a gummy had a grudge against. the police would not reveal the name of that organization and added it wasn't clear if it even existed. police raided yamma gummies home and found a similar hand made guns to the one retrieved at the scene of the killing, as well as a potential explosive device. will these fascination has it really sent shock waves around the world with brazil in india, both announcing periods of morning, while you, as president joe biden, described as a proud servant of the japanese people and

a faithful friend to the united states. robert kelly is professor of political science and diplomacy. it per son at national university, and he explains, are based, significant impact on japanese foreign policy. right. so the americans really liked it. we really liked them a lot actually because the emphasized a lot of the themes that the americans have been turning towards any stage for the last decade or so. particularly regarding china before a japan and had sort of kind of like a carnival or sort of mary go around prime ministers and stay for a year or 2 and, 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, of course, 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 it's 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 shared by the american that bad china and, and our old plan

a collision course over the course over up for the structure of the station politics and 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 for balancing against one another. and this is something that i'll be pushed, the japanese publicly hard. do you to sign up or if you agree with me, traditionally in japan, japanese foreign policy opinion has been kind of restrained sophistic. the idea was what the american can a lot of these kinds of things and the american of the things of japanese since 994 . and i kind of do this for you guys, gotta get up 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 that your political turn is other stuff like that. we didn't really work out very well. so my sense is that foreign policy will be the thing that he's remember for most ah,

rusher is vito to vote un security council that sought to extend a deliveries to syrians and the last rebel control north western region. a russian proposal to approve the oppression for 6 months also failed to get the required support. and his warning that closing the cardo via the bob of how border crossing could be catastrophic each day. more than a 1000 trucks pass from turkey, bringing humanitarian a to at least 4000000 people going. this is not a moment to mince words. i have long said that this is a life and death issue. and tragically, people will die because of this vote. and the country who's shamelessly deployed the b tow today. i diplomatic editor james by his joins as from the united nations and this is life saving a that's transported from turkey into northwest syria. why did it fail?

well, we've seen a trend in recent years. this was only introduced in 2014, in order to, to deliver aid not going through damascus, but going across borders. you need un security council authorization. 2014, they had for border crossing since then, russia has objected to the authorization of some of those border crossings. is in the last couple of years just been the one single border crossing of bubble ha ah, and that has been reliant on that a are on that border crossing some 4 point. 1000000 people are relying on food and medicine and other supplies that come in through that route. well, the authorization, the annual authorization for that has come up again. and russia said no, only 6 months this time, not a year, or should we authorize it for the the other countries, most of the other countries, um, no way and ireland were doing the negotiating, said no, 12 months still. so what we had in the security council was to rival resolutions and the one proposed by ireland and norway,

every one supported with the exception of russia that used its veto and china, another permanent member that's abstained when it came to the russian version, just 6 months that didn't pass because the only people in favor of that were russia and china. it sounds like high drama at the security council, but it's really serious because the current authorization for this age cross the border, runs out on sunday night. and james, is this another sentinel carry writing relationship itching rusher in the west? and what does that mean for people that rely so heavily on this help? certainly, the russian position is very hard and they are really not prepared now to compromise any more. and the diplomat so speaks been speaking to certainly western diplomat seemed to be in some despair. no more negotiations. i'm told to take place to day friday here in new york, they'll probably try and get back to negotiating on saturday or sunday in the last

minute. but it's worth telling you what the deputy russian ambassador said, and he said, i am not prepared to back any compromise that any one comes up with. i'm not prepared to back anything else. the page has been turned. he said, the only thing that he will support is if another country re introduces the resolution that he put forward that all of the security council apart from russia and china objected to that would of course be very humiliating for those other countries to reintroduce that russian resolution of only 6 months, which they say is very, very bad news because it would run out in the, in the worst time of year in the middle of winter in january. but it might be better than nothing. i put that point to the us ambassador in the last 20 minutes or so linda thomas greenfield, and she said, the russian resolution is nothing it's, it's not good enough and we've got to find some sort of compromise. so certainly the western nations many the other nations on the security council talking about further negotiations, the russians holding firm and saying our draft or nothing else. ok,

thank you. they match our diplomatic editor james base. the g 20 meeting in indonesia has been dominated by tension between foreign ministers around russia's invasion of ukraine. moscow's top tip to match our glove all the brocks abruptly left the summits after being shunned by members. he asked to meet on the sidelines . jessica washington reports on this now from bali when russian soj lovegrove arrived at the t 20 foreign ministers meeting his hosting in each is read no more sooty, greeted him warmly. members of the media would not as welcoming i this gathering monks the 1st time g. 20 foreign ministers have met since russia invaded ukraine. and the war has dominated the meeting lever of accused his western counterparts of russ a phobia and said they are deliberately not looking for common ground on economic issues. no, it was not us to abandon all points. was denied that states. oh,

that's all the concern ukraine invited as a special guest find leisure has accused russia of deliberately starving the world by disrupting supply chains. it says it's futile to talk about food and energy security without cooling for accountability. it's just the regular mailing of the world with a starvation, the feminine a, which is in hulu, which is cruel, and which is 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 bilateral 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 goal. host denisia has urged g 20 countries to work together to find global

solutions to global challenges. jessica washington out 0. bali walsall had for you on the program. someone has to grip this moment and make the right decision. race begins to replace u. k. prime minister, forrest johnson, as the conservative party, prepared to elect a new leader and sat flat on the former head of wald football and ex wife of president. michelle, like t me are found not guilty at a free trial in switzerland. ah ah. hello, we have absolutely perfect weather for finals. we can do the tennis at wimbledon glorious blue skies across much of western europe. and it's got to be absolutely

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ah, welcome back to watching al jazeera life from london. a main story this our wild leaders have paid tribute to for my japanese prime minister. sions. obey who was shot dead while campaigning on friday. 41 year old man has been arrested. russia is vito devoted un security council that sought to extend a deliveries to $4000000.00 syrians in the rebel cult controlled northwest in areas . a russian proposal to approve the u. n. o pricing for 6 months also failed to get the required support. un is now warning, the closing that corridor could be catastrophic for the people that need, that 8 the u. s. president decided executive order to help protect women's access to abortion and contraception. joe biting criticize what he called an out of control supreme court, which recently over time,

rosie wade lima ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right to an abortion across the u. s. that the fastest way to restore abortion rights is to pass a federal law through congress. we cannot allow an out of control supreme court working in conjunction with extremist elements of the republican party to take away freedoms and our personal autonomy choice. we faces a nation between the mainstream and the extreme, between moving forward and moving backwards, between allowing politicians to enter the most personal ports of our lives and protecting the right of privacy. this is a choice. this is a moment. the moment moment restore the right should have been taken away from us in a moment to protect our nation from the extremist agenda. that is antithetical to everything we believe as americans like hatteras following a st. joined us now from the white house. what's been the public reaction to this

executive order? the public reaction is divided. does most this in the united states that present opinion polls have indicated that the majority of americans from 62 percent support abortion the to that is some 38 percent are deeply opposed. but you can see clearly the party lines involve some 80 percent of democrats support abortion and are deeply ann good by the court. the supreme court decision to remove that right there we get. on the other side, you have some 64 percent of republicans who continue to support the ban on abortion, as well as support the supreme court in removing the protection supported under rober his way. but what president biden has done is equated his emergency order to those pos during the civil rights movements in the sixty's where executive. busy

orders were protected to protect those who are working for this civil rights. president biden equating this to women searching for their reproductive rights. so making a clear parallel between these 2 events, but the executive board itself somewhat limits in scope, very difficult for president biden to do something tangible as he's made very clear, it does instruct the justice department to take steps to protect women seeking abortion. to the extent of putting mobile clinics on the borders of states that refuse abortions, he's also directed the health secretary to come up with a report in the next 30 days of how to guarantee reproductive rights. how to improve the flow of medications to women who desire them. so these are steps being taken by president bided insistence that in order for row be way to be reinstated, that is for congress. and that is for voters. and how could all this be shaped by

the mid term elections in november? while it's going to have a huge impact on those midterm elections? president biden since head roe v wade, the decision was handled down in the dog's case 2 weeks ago. president bonham has made very clear that his executive action is limited, that it's up to the people to resist the act with a vote at the polls. now those statistics that i gave you indicate that this may well impact on the midterm elections. if those who are angered at the supreme court decision, take the decision to vote, to improve the number of pro choice candidates within the senate and the congress. because this is the critical point without the require majority in both house and senate, the legislation that would be needed to reinstall road the way is just not possible president bite and saying as soon as congress passed that legislation, he will sign into law immediately. but

a long way before that can happen. thanks very much, mike connor with all the nicest from the white house on this. or here, the 1st candidate seeking to replace bars. jones in his british prime minister, has announced they are joining the race. johnson's angered many in his own policy by insisting he'll stay for now rather than hand over to his deputy. and barbara has the latest. a day off to boris johnson said he stepped down attentions turn to watch and who comes next around the newly cleaned up palace of westminster. the talk is of a clean break of restoring trust in governments. someone has to grip this moment and make the right decisions. and friday, the 1st of the political big beasts announced their standing of the previous chancellor. rashid sooner and i have spent my co when people together. so next, one of 2 cabinet members who's resignation lead to a torrent of junior ministers quitting. and johnson eventually giving in. there should be a new leader. but on thursday,

johnson insisted he'd stay in post until the new leader was chosen a process that could take many weeks within the party. initial opposition to him staying on in the interim seems to be weakening. i don't think that it would be appropriate for us whether we around the cabinet table or in any other parts of the british government just to kind of down tools and say at she and i what we're not going to do anything until the new boss is in place we have a duty and our duty is to govern what's due to happen is all the conservative members of parliament get to vote on the leadership candidates. it could take several rounds before they narrow it down to just 2 names. assuming neither drops out, it's then up to the wider party membership to pick a new leader. well, it's different this time is it's just a different saver policy. it's not parliamentary deadlock, as it was either to resume with her fellow to get her breath it deal through. in this case, the problem is the prime minister and in particular premises judgment. his

integrity and the fact that he really lost confidence of so many people in his government. and that's meant that say that it's slight weird that he's continuing the opposition labor party still say if johnson isn't gone soon, they'll try to force him out using parliaments. he shouldn't be desperately clinging on when he has had to leave office because of his disgraceful conduct. and that's why i say the tory party should remove him. and if they don't, we will step up in the national interest and bring a photo confidence. it's unlikely though that enough conservative m p 's would back stammer in 2 weeks, parliament breaks for the summer, leaving westminster to the tourists and leaving the choice of prime minister to fewer than a 150000 conservative party members. but between now and then, plenty could happen to change boris johnson's timetable for leaving downing street . the dean baba al jazeera london. he might be 80 sexpert sap lattice,

as he still has the stamina to return to a job in football from head of the sports while governing bodies been found not guilty of fraud trial in switzerland. it's full. my fee for colleague michelle platen. he was also cleared, far as smile reports even before as swiss court found him not guilty of fraud sat bladder, the former had a world football, appeared confident of what lay ahead. i am not the innocent in my life, but in this case i am innocent. in which cases are you not innocent? stoplight your stub big no likely light, if you are the former fee for president and the ex had of european football. michelle play teeny, were accused of illegally organizing a $2000000.00 payment and 2011 bladder said the feed was for plotting his work as a consultant and the court found in their favor. both men were bound by 152015 as part of a wider ethics investigation. moved that effectively ended the careers of 2 of

world football's most powerful men. yes, i conquered settle, commission 7 years ago. faith decided to banish me from old football. related activities. ah, who have devoted my life to football faith made that decision. then they traded may lockie, corrupt person, a money launderer, a forger. i won't let that god. so we'll see what happens next as we'll think about it. but i'm not letting go of anything alive. i'm from golden fair. i am sitting here now with this issue. it keeps read. not only more credit because i feel hucks. this is actually your stamina. local people, local food, both, but a 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, but it's it's, it's come to late in his,

in the slippery lights in his life. platinum still wants to return to football. i'm play a role in football and he may well now seek some sort of office with him football. it's been a messy affair. expose a lot of the the shenanigans in so i'd prefer we mustn't forget the butter. oversaw a system of features that didn't 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. for a smile, al jazeera, at least 13 people, a dead thousands more missing after a cloud bus cause flash floods in indian administered kashmir. now this happened in general district during the annual month. long r monmouth, yacht hr, a hindu pilgrimage. 30 say tense and community kitchens were washed away by the time to water. a bodies have been recovered so far and a rescue operation is ongoing. nicaragua, government is expelled,

a group of catholic nuns in what critic says it part of a crackdown on any one suspected of opposing the president nouns are accused of breaching you funding laws in their work and with children and abused women. alas, america is salisia newman has this report. now. these buses are seen taking 18 nuns from the order founded by mother teresa of calcutta to nicaraguan 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 is a 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 neighbour in costa rica, where a mass was held to show them support. when does the monsignor, when,

when you love god, he's always present and transformation. they love them, but when your values run counter to his values, lawyers and they'll be of causal persecution. that secrecy. the bishop was alluding to danielle ortega's 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 its hospitality, but said they didn't want to stay. i have 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. ironically they were expelled by the same president who 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 $230.00 russian troops. planes and ships for

quote purposes of training and law enforcement. ortega is a staunch ally of letting me of putin, which in the current global context, her raises red flags in the region is r. o le, that one era? 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 5072 you russian tanks bought in 2016 which breaks the reasonable balance, which our 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 comment, it said it was time that russian weapons got closer to american cities. ah, that's with the nuns. it's unlikely that their prayers to return to nicaragua will be answered soon to see in human al jazeera.