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the assassination of japan's former prime minister sions, obey these a nation in shock and mourning tributes, oregon from around the world. the suspect to the attacker confesses to the murder and tells investigators that he held a grudge against an organization that he but these are, they had links to ah, carrie johnston. this is al jazeera broadcasting live from de also coming up. this is a dark, dark day in the security council to rival votes in a divided un security council threatened that critical aid deliverance for millions of people in northwest syria. us president joe biden signs an executive order protecting access to abortion, and calls the countries of supreme court out of control for over turning road the weight and tesla c. o. ellen musk is terminating at $44000000000.00 deal

to buy twitter, setting the stage for legal battle. ah, we begin in japan, a nation that stunned bobby assassination. one of its most consequential post or leaders, shins or other. he was shot dead on friday during a campaign speech in the southwestern city of nora. people have been paying tributes and laying flowers at the sight of his murder. are they was japan's longest serving prime minister, killed in one of the worst attacks politician. since the 2nd world war, his attacker, a 41 year old foreman, navy officer, says he had a grudge against ave, for his links to an organization which has not been named natasha. cal name begins are coverage ah, a shot to the heart by

a man with a home made go 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 had to ya. ya mcgarr 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 came men o q 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 who had b. r. b 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, 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. 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 to have taken on various challenges with the japanese people. although 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. us present. joe biden has ordered flags to be thrown at half staff in honor of the flags of the y tasks and other federal buildings will remain. so through sunday, president biden also signed the condolence book at the japanese ambassadors residence, and he called at japan's prime minister from the shita, expressing his outrage and condolences. i knew him when we worked together closely for years and we spoke in solar. when i serve as vice president,

and here people are committed to strengthening the alliance of friendship between the united states and japan. and pursuing an open free pacific region and service to his country. and his people vote even after stepped down from public officers focus on his health. he stayed engaged the care deeply. i owe them great respect. china has reacted to the assassination through its embassy in tokyo. is said they had made contributions to improving relations between the 2 countries. south korea's president units took you all described the shooting as an unforgivable act of crime. french president macaroni said japan had lost a great leader who dedicated his life to his country and worked to ensure order in the world. and india's prime minister there and remote, he reflected on his most recent meeting with saying he was witty and inciteful as

always, new delhi has declared a day of national morning well, tributes from well leaders continued to pour in, mexico's president shed his condolences with the people of japan, a, if we are going to be, he was participating during a political campaign and he was attacked. they tried to save his life, but it wasn't possible. so our condolences to the people and the government of japan, and of course to the relatives and friends of the former prime minister, it will be. meanwhile, brazil's oppressed, since terrible scenario, has also condemned the attack or latin america editor lucy newman, has more from santiago, was not called war extreme lease, strong punishment against the person who killed the former japanese leader. and he has called for 3 days of national morning 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 opperation after the initial after it was initially taken to hospitals. so, so he's something 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. once we're not, it's 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 wish 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 you. each he has for you is a professor of international politics at q university in japan. and a visiting fellow university of cambridge, thanks for joining us here on out to 0. may i ask you 1st? i understand you met chince? i've been many times. how did he come across to you as a person? well i was, we think his advisory board in premier says office on civil for him and security policy issues. so around that time are maybe every month i will just office to talk and discuss on important point calls and the security policy issues. and aside from the tragedy, he was canvassing far upper house elections at the time. how might this impact the outcome of sunday's vote? do you think? right, and 1st of all, the reason why he was there was that he remained one of the most popular

leader waiting in the p willing party. that's why many members really liked to come to support those candidates. that's why he went there. but i don't think that the outcome of the incident will not i will change the outcome because. 2 a still a many people believe that the moving party remains very strong and from the beginning, many people expected that the l. e p routing party would wink. so in the sense, i don't think that the incident radically change the outcome. and within the l. d. p, is there any figure that comes anywhere close to him in terms of stature? actually she's the other was exceptionally a popular and also strong edition in japanese pork. so it's very difficult to find

alternative other there is no r b i to current l d p. so in the sense i think that a key sheet up i'm is lakisha. nice to have some popularity or carry summer without abby. so it means that he really has to be stronger in trying to convince japanese voters that kinda the de, become a very strong in the popular conditions in japanese books and in japanese politics . as you mentioned, how will japan move on from this politically? right. oh, so simple are these function is previously right? mean function in the sense he let that right mean the strongest function with the current l e p. on the other hand he, she does function, his own function is lifting the bowl function within the ruling party. l e p. so in the sense it can be expected that the key should, that is slowly trying to move

a lift was to have a b more beeville point policy. so in a sense, i think that i can see there is trying to collaborate with surrounding countries like south korea and other country as well. so in the sense, i think that the key, she will present a slightly different kind of foreign policy from a foreign policy agenda. but at the same time, i think that it is important to consider to present. he's a strong personality or high profile international community because our big was exceptionally famous and popular figure international diplomacy. and it has a little bit if you can about your personal interactions with chalabi. what was he like? first of all, she was extremely gentle and kind to others. so in the sense i,

he's our public image in media. i think i was slightly different from my own fee because he always trying to care others. and also she was exceptionally frictional to show it means that he always was eager to learn something new from others. and expands, included in the sense, i think that he's quite communicative and as well as he's quite talkative, he always trying to entertain others in the sense it's natural that many people around him really liked him. and do you think his conservative style politics will continue in the, in the pacific region then? right. i personally feel that even though he was, i dollars quite like we got but he's for him cause see was actually very the bill focusing on the importance of moodle. know, focusing on the importance of international use as well as much doctor is in the

sense i think that he is a kind of a generous faced politician who have writing comes out to idol g. we've let being a foreign policy or domestic policy agenda. so in the sense, i think that he always tried to strike the balance among a different kind of ideology, a lot of different interests in the sense i, i think that he is basically he was very pragmatic meta in japanese politics. i think this is a key. why he couldn't maintain his government for more than 8 years. okay, we'll leave it there. you ha, ha. so you live in cambridge there for us. thank you for your insights. thank you for having and of course, we'll continue our coverage of that story on al jazeera. but here's what else is coming up. someone has to grip this moment and make the right decision. the race

begins to replace u. k prime minister boris johnson. as a conservative party prepared to elect the new leader. and and go this josie, eduardo da santos dies at 79. remembered for service. one of the longest funny residences in the world. ah, the journey has begun the fee for wold copies on its way to a castle book. your travel package today. hello, we have seen some flooding recently into parts if north korea, northern areas of the country saying some rather well listen pads of cloud still streaming through here and that will crash. he make his way towards japan. i wrote 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 such on his showers. he take it around 33 degrees celsius. it

will be hot. it's going to be 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 the northeast. in areas of china, once again easing over towards yellow sea, heavy bursts of rain likely to cause some localized flooding for the southeast, generally dry, but we can't without the possibility of a few showers down towards hong kong and high nan. plenty of showers. meanwhile, across much of indo china, some alive, we shall still in place there across the philippines where to where the will make his way towards southern parts of vietnam as we go through the next couple of days to weather wet, to east and areas of indonesia, malaysia, more the way of sunshine than showers. now penny a shower, longest bells have for a monsoon rays, of course, across a good part of india. lots of clout here. now. plenty a shower say to southwestern parts of pakistan. and that is likely to cause some flooding. chatter air with issue airline of the journey

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shot dead. it was a country's longest serving leader tribute, some pouring in from world leaders. joe biden describe me as a man of peace. the 41 year old suspect used a hand made gun to carry out the attack. the former made the officer says he held a grudge against an organization. he believed they had links to your own mosque who has confirmed that he's terminating his $44000000000.00 takeover of twitter. that has that ceo's legal team says the social media giant breached several provisions of the deal. twitter says it will sue masked to enforce the merger agreement. she had returned c, as in washington with more thought me muscular and signalling for some weeks since the end of april when he made this feel that he's unhappy with ostensibly the reason is he's unhappy with but twitters disclosures about the number of fake accounts on twitter tortoises only 5 percent mosque says he's not happy with all the information he's seen backing. backing about number up. it's very difficult not to notice that since musk made the steel shaft price or twitter slid. and it really

does seem that he is over paying over paying for twitter. so he says, right, i want to back out of this deal. the problem is he did sign a pretty cost agreement to bite, which are on this. they are extraordinary circumstances. there is a $1000000000.00 penalty that's not much for us from us, but there's also a specific clause in that which allows twitter to force mosque to go through with the deal at the original terms. if the reasons must gives back out of the deal as seem to be frivolous and this frankly, if seem to be knocked out to meet the requirements for master escape, let's go back to it. it does have a very strong legal case installed to is already said it will be taking will be taking must to court. russia has veto the resolution of the un security council, but source to extend a delivery to syrians in the last rebel control northwestern region. the u. n. is warning that closing the corridor by the, by how

a boarding crossing could be catastrophic or diplomatic editor james base has more now from the united nations. i think severe, acute as things stand, this may end up being the law shipment of humanitarian aid, food and medicine from turkey into northwest syria. i think he's incorporated in nodded 4100000 people rely on this lifeline, but it must be authorized by the un security council. and in the council chamber, there's deadlock a resolution to allow the crossing to operate for another 12 months was supported by all members. apart from china, which abstained, and russia, which used its, vito russia then presented its own rival resolution allowing the crossing to operate for 6 months. but it didn't pass. it was only supported by russia and china . 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 shamelessly deploy the beetle to day negotiations will continue. the current authorization for the border crossing runs out at the end of sunday, but russia doesn't sound in the mood for compromise. teach you some one, her proposes our draft. so we would not say that this is our, it's lecture property. if someone proposes our draft for the 2nd time, why not? if not, if not, i'm say, i think that the, the pages over. so he asked the u. s. ambassador with the russians, unwilling to compromise. will she have to pack down and accept the russian proposal . now that would be very humiliating for you, but it would be better than nothing, wouldn't it? his resolution was nothing. ah, we got 99 percent of the way there with the russians. we gave them 99 percent. they admitted they got 99 percent and they are holding out for one percent to continue to give support to the syrian regime. obviously tensions around the council table

of increased because of the ongoing war in ukraine. but this is about more than security council theater and drama. it's about millions of syrians, their lives at risk from starvation or lack of medical treatment. james bay's al jazeera, the united nations, syria is the president, bashar assad has visited the heavily damaged northern province of aleppo, the 1st time since war broke out in the country 11 years ago. he supervise the partial relaunch of a major power plant in the eastern countryside. as well as a water pumping station electricity networks and other infrastructure were ravaged by the conflict which is estimated to have killed up to half a 1000000 people and left millions of others displaced. the u. s. president assigned an executive order to help protect women's access to abortion and contraception. joe biden criticized what he called an out of control supreme court,

which recently overturned rosie wade. the landmark ruling that guaranteed the constitutional right from the washing across the u. s. my counter reports from washington dc. the new measures today, the president blasted the supreme court's recent decision. striking down at the 3 year old ruling guaranteeing women a constitutional right to an abortion. and this is not a decision driven by the constitution. and despite those justice is a majority said this was not a decision. and driven by history, opinion polls indicate the majority of americans agree with the president on this. i respected pew poll, indicating 62 percent insist that abortion should be legal. in all almost cases. despite this, at least 9 states that banned abortion with more than a dozen states expected to do so. in coming weeks blanked by his vice president and the secretary of health. president biden insisted that it was up to congress to

pass legislation, restoring. roby wade and this in turn would need people to vote for pro choice candidates in the november elections. the challenge is, go out and vote for god sake, there's no election november, vote, vote, vote vote. consider the challenge accepted court the president and signed an executive order aimed at listening the impact of the court's decision on american women. it instructs the justice department to ensure the safety of abortion, patients, and providers, including setting up mobile clinics near the borders of states restricting abortion access. another part of the order directs the health secretary to investigate how to protect the supplies of medication and increase public awareness around reproductive rights. the president has all directed that access to emergency contraception and i u. d. 's be expanded by the federal government. that is

a direct response to what he characterizes as a threat. bias supreme court justice is concurring judgement. 2 weeks ago, justice clarence thomas suggested that the court should reconsider the constitutional right to contraception. even among married couples, mike, hannah al jazeera washington. the 1st candidate seeking to replace boris johnson as prime minister have announced this standing while johnston has angered many in his own party by insisting he'll stay for now rather than hondo at his deputy. and in baba has latest. a day off devoris, johnson said he'd stepped down attentions turned to what 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 decision. and friday, the 1st, the political, big $36.00 announced their standing of the previous chancellor receives tonight.

and i have spent my career when people together. so next, one of 2 cabinet members whose resignation led to a torrent of junior ministers quitting. and johnson eventually giving in that 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 are around the cabinet table or in any other part of the british government. just to kind of down tools and say actually you know 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 been up to the wider policy membership to pick

a new leader. what's different this time is it's not a different type of policy. it's not parliamentary deadlock. as it was over, teresa may with her credit to get her breakfast deal through. in this case, the problem is the prime minister and in particular, the problems of judgment. his integrity and the fact that he really lost confidence of so many people in his government. and that meant that, that it's like weird that he's continuing the opposition. labor party still save johnson isn't gone soon. they'll try to force him out using parliament. 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 that the tory party should remove him, and if they don't, we will step up in the national interest and bring a vote of no confidence. it's unlikely though that enough conservative m p 's would back stormer 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 time table for leaving downing street . the dean barbara al jazeera london, the family of murdered al jazeera journeys, serene acclaim, has called on the u. s. president to meet them on his visit to jerusalem next week . they wanted joe biden to order an f. b. i investigation into her death. sharina was shot in the head by israeli forces while she was on assignment in janine and occupied west bank on may. 11th al jazeera media network continues to demand a rapid independent, transparent investigation into sharina killing in the philippines that nobel peace prize winner maria recert has lost her appeal against a cyber libel conviction. it was announced by her new site wrapper, which said the decision weakens the ability of journalists to hold the power to account. the former c n n correspondent is facing a prison sentences up to 7 years. rasa is

a vocal homeland for a former and go and present as a at why the da santos has died at a medical clinic in barcelona. he was receiving treatment for prolonged illness or santos led anger for nearly 40 years. stepping down in 2017. he died age 79. for me, the miller takes a look back. his life after his retirement from politics in angola in 2018, to say our daughter to santos had been living in spain. it's there had been receiving medical treatment for an unknown illness. relations between the former president and the successor shoulder 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 their associates 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 an 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 impure lay 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 and go lessons a late 19 seventies after years of civil war in 1991 cent assigned a peace agreement with the national union for the total independence of kohler and agreed to.