c, y is set to continue then further north, while in between we have got some live. the shouts is a said just pushing up towards sir all the appellation, some really heavy rain coming through here that is lighted, cause some flooding. that'll ease its way over towards the sea of the southern parts of new york. could catch him sharp showers as we go through saturday, sunday, a dry day, a brighter day. wet weather for the southeast corner. still though. right the way down across sir alabama. pushing towards the deep south and some wet weather. they're just coming back in across the lakes, one or 2 showers towards the south west, but nothing too much to speak of. to see phoenix still at 44 degrees celsius. la. if you do, i forget parts of mexico, central america, seeing some sharp showers from time to time, sunshine, his showers across a good part of the caribbean this weekend. ah, ah

. the assassination of japan's a former prime minister action so ave leaves a nation in shock and mourning attributes pouring in from around the world. the suspected attack confesses to the murder entails investigators that he held a grudge against an organization that he believed i had links to ah, terry johnston. this is al jazeera broadcasting life and also coming up. tesla c o, either mosque is terminating a $44000000000.00 deal to buy twitter, setting the stage for legal battle top diplomats from the u. s. and china try face to face diplomacy in a shadow of rushes. warn you, cried intentions over taiwan. this is a dark, dark day in the security council to rival boats. and the divided un security

council threatened critical aid deliveries from millions of people in northwest syria. ah, we begin in japan and nations stunned by this fascination of one of its most consequential host war leaders, chin, so other he was shot dead on friday during a campaign speech in the southwestern city of nora. people have been paying tributes, laying flowers at the sight of his murder ave, was at japan's longest serving prime minister, killed in one of the worst attacks on a politician since the 2nd world war. his attacker, a 41 year old foreman, navy officer, says he had a grudge against abbe for his links to an organization which has not been named natasha. gl name begins are coverage, a shot to the heart by a man with a home made gun 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 had to ya yamagata. he told them he was disgruntled with our bay 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 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 abbe 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, 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 are the 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 to conduct

diplomacy that would protect the national interest. during this time, i'm proud of taking on various challenges with the japanese people. 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 her name l 0. o, we have some live pictures now from outside, mister abbey's residence in tokyo is expected that his herse will be brought from nora to the japanese capital. and we believe it's already on the way. there's heavy security outside his home, as you can see with many members of the press present there at the moment as well. michael pen is the owner of the shin, get suit news agency. he joins us on skype from tokyo,

thanks for being on the program here on al jazeera. what more do we know about the direction the investigation is taking? well, it's taking some rather a striking directions in the pastor hour or so. so basically it's now seems to be emerging that the, the, the motive of the killer basically had nothing to do with, with ordinary politics. that he was angry at a certain group. as you mentioned in your report, we now have an indication that, ah, from the authorities, that the group in it was a religious group, not a political group. and that, that because this person that the killer had a, was angry at this religious group and he associated ob, a witness religious group. that's, that was his motive in doing the killing. so it's not, it's not really looking like it has anything to do with abe's role in national politics, but more one of his sort of supplementary support or organization roles.

and by all accounts and extremely rare kinds of incidents in japan, what's the mood of the nation at the moment? well, of course, you know, it's, people are just absorbing it. yesterday, of course, was the day when, when the assassination happened. and people are still, you know, kind of waking up and trying to, to sort of adjust to the new reality. ave, has been a major figure and, and japanese people's lives for at least a generation here. and so now this, this man is gone and, you know, obviously with elections tomorrow as well it's, it's on almost everybody's mind. and just how significant a figure was. she's there in japanese politics in general. yeah, well i would say that in the 21st century, you know, you would have to rank him as,

as 1st or 2nd. most him important person in japanese politics. he was prime minister longer than anybody else. he, he made but strong efforts to sort of transform the entire direction of the country . some of it was successful, but not so successful. but he certainly was ambitious in his vision. and you know, even today the government. so, you know, since he came back to power in 2012, i mean the main lines of japanese policy are essentially ones that were established by all day and you know, 10 years later it's still be the main lines of the japanese government policy. ok, michael penn from the shing get seen news agency. thank you for your insights here today. thank you. well palmer, he co, tony googe. he was a special advisor and former speech right. a fortune that he says they will be remembered as a compassionate leader. personally,

he is warm and the friendship once forge to last eternally, i'm not exaggerating. he remembers people once met, he wouldn't forget doubts his personal charm and he has maintained his deep love with his wife. who is morning very much deeply. i would imagine today you can tell by looking at where japan is. japan is a neighbor to russia, north korea, china, none of which has ever implemented anything that came to democracy. each one of which is nuclear. and when it comes to china, it is growing as we discuss like this

today. and so japan must strengthen its national security. but you can't do anything alone. bice, by by yourself, which is why she's a law bear. met a huge number of flooring lead us developed close ties with people from obama, from and biden. mae johnson, you name it without him in japan could not have come this far. you can't fill the void, you really can't fill the void. for me, it seems almost as if i have lost the entire purpose of my life as a professional. while other knees now and either musk has confirmed that he's terminating his $44000000000.00 takeover. twitter, the tesla c as legal team,

as the social media giant breached several provisions of the deal, twitter says it will assume asked to enforce the merger agreement. well, our market is a technology analyst and ceo of connect safely don't, or he joins us now from palo alto in california. thanks for joining us here. what do you think he's really going on here? well, i think it's financial mostly. i think that what's happened, of course, is since he made the offer, twitter stock has gone down and tesla stock has gone down, which means twitter is worth less money. but also means that he has less money. i mean, his net worth is based largely on his test with stock. so his net worth has gone down to the other major factors. i might add that if your reputation has also taken a hit, although some conservative like the fact that he wants to go in there and reinstate donald trump and get rid of some of the moderation policies. a lot of people are

very upset about that and think that they're going to twitter, it's going to go back to the wild west or anything goes including harassment and bullying and other social harm. so i think that's had an impact on him, but i don't know if that's why if that would, in any way influence him to want to back out of the deal. you mentioned people being upset and what about twitters employees? how they view, do i have had conversations with employees, of course, but i'm not going to say who they were, but i have yet to find an employee who's excited about you on my speed being their boss. i mean, many are very concerned. they're worried about what will happen to the policies that they put into place. and i, i think it has had a negative react reaction and company. now, at the highest level, there may be financial reasons why they want this merger to go through this acquisition to go through. but i think at the rank and file lower level, it would be hard to find an employee who's excited about the idea. and this twitter really have any chance then if it says it was potentially going to sue, must rule this. i mean, i, i don't know the legal implications,

but i think twitter probably would prevail in this. i would think simply because there are, there are the deal now he must, can get out by paying a $1000000000.00 fine or $1000000000.00, but spent, sorry, fine. a $1000000000.00 penalty. and my guess is that that's what he's trying to prevent is not having to make that 1000000000 dollar payment. but, you know, we'll have to see how the lawyers are hashed it's out in must claim that twitter was not forthcoming on information about spam and bots and things of that nature. twitter said that they were forced cunning, so i guess we'll leave it up to the judge or the jury, or whoever makes the decision. or maybe they'll reach a settlement, or perhaps they'll re negotiate the price and it must be happier at a lower price. it maybe twitter will go along with that. when indeed, i mean, could he change his mind again? and he does seem to be quite material, doesn't he? when it comes to his approach to things as somebody who owns the test, what if it's still waiting for the self driving feature? i can tell you he's very mccary or he can never really trust what he says he's

going to do in the future. i'm not saying he doesn't deliver some great products, but i would take anything he said with a grain of salt because he's been known to change the mind on many occasion. ok, we leave it there that are in my get from connect safely to oak. thank you. for that today, thank you. well to the head hair on al jazeera us present, joe biden lashes out at the supreme court over abortion bounds to protect access. ah, the journey has begun. the faithful world coffee is on its way to cancel your travel package today. hello, we have seen some flooding recently into parts if north korean northern areas of the country saying some rather wet, whether some bands of clouds still streaming through here 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 you around. 33 degrees celsius is going to be hot, is going to be humid while the sticky weather continuing. here over the next couple of days, a soccer was similar conditions, notice wet a 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, 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 and ally, the shower 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 weather wet to eastern areas of indonesia, malaysia more the way of sunshine than showers. now penny a showers longest bows of re monsoon rays, of course, across a good part of india. lots of cloud here. now. plenty of showers there to southwestern parts of pakistan, and that is likely to cause some flooding. chatter. airway official

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flowers at the site where former japanese prime minister sions of abbey was shot dead. he was a country's longest serving leader tribute supporting in from wealth leaders. joe biden described me as a man of peace. in the 41 year old suspect used a hand made gone to carry out the attack. a former navy officer says he held a grudge against an organization that he believed i've had links to the ukraine war is costing a long shadow on the already complex relationship between us and china. foreign ministers of the 2 countries are meeting in body. china never condemned at russia's invasion in just days before it began. beijing and moscow signed the so called new limits partnership. washington in beijing are also at odds over taiwan. china's ambitions in the south china sea have been a source of attention as well. to missouri, about china and the united states are 2 major countries. so it's necessary for the

2 countries to maintain normal exchanges. at the same time, we do need to work together to ensure that relationship will continue to move forward along the right track. it's important to stay committed to the principles put forward by president. she's in ping mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and when, when cooperation of, because that serves the interests of the 2 countries. and it is also the shared aspiration of the international community. there is no substitute for face to face or sometimes best as oppose ah, in a relationship accomplish. and consequently, one between united space and china. there is a lot to talk about. i very much looking forward to productive construct a conversation. well, jessica washington joins us live from body noun. jessica, this is a 1st meeting between secretary blank and, and lang e since late last year. what issues do we expect to be discussed? well, that's exactly right. and we have seen an increase in diplomatic activity between

the u. s. and china. that includes, of course, a phone call between president biden and president, she didn't being in march, a meeting between defense chiefs in singapore, in june. and now we have this meeting of the foreign ministers, their 3rd meeting ever, and their 1st since late last year. as you mentioned, there are some issues that frequently come up in these bilateral talks between the u. s. and china, which of course happened behind closed doors, but we do expect that of course, the war and ukraine will come up, but mostly they will be talking more about regional security issues. the issue of taiwan, of course, a very contentious issue is likely to come up from the perspective of the u. s. concern that china is increasing its aggression and opting to change the status quo in the taiwan strait. but from beijing's perspective, concerned that the u. s. is opting to meddle in its internal affairs and indeed medalie in the matters concerning the asia pacific. we did hear a short while ago from the chinese foreign ministry,

who noted that the talks will focus on the bilateral relationships between the 2 countries, but also some regional and international matters. so quite a, a broad statement there, but we also heard earlier from the u. s. sec u. s. state department and official who commented that the talks may also extend to more general conversations about climate change, about global health infrastructure. but importantly for this part of the world, the situation in me and ma, the increasing violence and the hung, hundreds of civilians who have been killed since the coo, early last year. importantly, these talks are the 1st high level known talks between us and chinese officials. since we heard those reports that the u. s. may be looking to ease some of the tariffs on chinese goods significantly that should help with easing some cost of living concerns for american citizens. but also it could go some way in helping to mend the relationship between the u. s. and china, a relationship that is often described by officials and experts who watched the

relationship very closely as strained. ok, jessica washington live from barley. thank you for that. no, russia has vetoed the resolution of the un security council that sought to extend a deliveries to syrians and the last to rebel control that north western region. the u. n. is at warning that close in the corridor by the bab, or how a border crossing could be catastrophic or diplomatic edits. james base has more from the united nations. i think severe, acute my humor, as things stand, this may end up being the law. shipment of humanitarian aid, food and medicine from turkey into northwest syria. i think ethan cook lovely didn't, nodded 4 point. 1000000 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 veto. 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 intellectual 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. serious president bashar assad has visited the heavily damaged northern province of leper for the 1st time since war broke out in the country. 11 years ago. he supervise the partial relaunch of a major power plant in 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 us president assigned and executive order to help protect women's access to abortion, and contraception, terabyte and criticize what he called an out of control supreme court. which recently overturn roe the wade, the landmark ruin guaranteed the constitutional rights to an abortion across the us . by canada reports from washington, dc. the new measures today, the president blasted the supreme court's recent decision. striking down a 50 year old ruling guaranteeing women a constitutional right to an abortion. this was not a decision driven by the constitution. in spite, with those justices, the majority said, this was non to decision and driven by history. opinion polls indicate the majority

of americans agree with the president on this. a respected pew poll indicating 62 percent insist that abortion should be legal. in all almost cases. despite this, at least 9 states have 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 challenges go out moon, for god's sake, traditional election november vote, vote vote vote. consider the challenges accepted court. the president then signed an executive order aimed at lessening the impact of the court's decision on american women. it instructs the justice department to ensure the safety of

abortion patience, 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 also directed that access to emergency contraception and i, you d's be expanded by the federal government. this is a direct response to what he characterizes as a threat by a supreme court justice and he is concurring judgement. 2 weeks ago, justice clarence thomas suggested that the court should reconsider the constitutional right to contraception. even among married couples, my kind of audience era, washington burkina faso, the former president bay is a compound a has made his 1st public appearance alongside the leader of the ruling military.

johnson compar has spent the past 8 years in exxon neighboring ivory coast, and he was deposed in a popular uprising in 2014, but his return has led to protests as nicholas pac reports. this is the 1st public appearance by blaze composure back inside the presidential palace from which he ruled. burkina faso with an iron fist for 27 years. boy is here at the invitation of colonel pole, or he said i will go dummy bow, who after taking powering to cool in january is calling for national reconciliation . the initiative to meet with former heads of state has only one name to bring social cohesion in face of the challenging situation that our dear country working also is facing. but compar is returned from 8 years in exile, has parked the protest in the capital was due. he fled the country in 2014, after being deposed in a popular uprising in april. he was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of

the pan african leader. and former but can be president to my son car reconciliation without justice is not a reconciliation. and the military, when they took power in the to that was not their mission. the mission is 1st and foremost on the front line, not was due in the whole the government. their mission is to fight terrorism attacks by arm groups linked to isis, and i'll call you to have displaced millions of people. this meeting of former heads of state were supposed to be a show of unity and reconciliation in face of growing threats to procure faster sovereignty. however, only 2 of the 5 former presidents were at the gathering combat away is expected to return to ivory coast. but this appearance at the palace has made many uneasy, fearing a return to the past and more instability ahead. nicholas hawk al jazeera former and go then at preston to joseph eduardo da santos has died at her medical clinic

in barcelona. he was receiving treatment for a prolonged illness. son foster led on going to the finale, 40 years of stepping down in 2017. he died age 79. from the middle takes a look back at his life. off his retirement from politics in gold, 92018. to say a daughter. the samples had been living in spain. its they had been receiving medical treatment for an unknown illness relations between the former president and his successors 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 dissenters 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 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 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 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 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 center stepped.