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we begin in japan. the nation stunned by the assassination of former prime minister oceans obey. he was shot dead on friday during a campaign speech in the south western city of nora. people been paying for the woodson, laying flowers at the sight of his murder ave was at hands longest serving prime minister. he was killed in one of the worst attacks politicians since the 2nd world war. when new details are emerging about the man that shot and killed japan's former prime minister, he's the longest certain leader and was assassinated in a campaign event in nara on friday. i'll just say with gillian wolf report. these are the moments before japan's former prime minister since obey was assassinated. and this is the man accused of shooting him, standing among the crowd and the city of norah, causing many to ask how to to yagami managed to get through security with a home made gun. ah, please say the 41 year old former navy officer admitted his shooting ave,

telling him he was disgruntled with a specific organization he believed. are they to be a part of moments later, an army of police rated the suspects home. recovering more weapons, abbe was carrying out of routine campaign speech for his parties, candidates ahead of sundays parliamentary election. his speech silenced by assassination tributes have poured in from around the world. the un security council held a moment of silence as you, as flags were ordered to be flown at half staff. several nations announcing a day or more of morning. i knew him well, we worked together closely for years now. we've spoken to solar. when i serve as vice president and here deeply committed to strengthen reliant friendship between the united states in japan, a nation left stun where gun laws are restrictive and political violence almost

unthinkable. people paying tribute to their former leader in the place where he took his final breath, run them on nothing. i feel really sorry for a long time. he tried so hard to make this country thrive again. and he really made many efforts towards thought the 67 year old was a dynamo of japanese politics and a 3rd generation politician. his grandfather was prime minister and his father, foreign minister, who was one of japan's most consequential post war leaders ob, a for, to build a prosperous and peaceful nation. he promoted policies dubbed abba nomics, intended to boost the japanese economy and wanted to raise japan's geopolitical cloud by amending its post world war to pacifists constitution, but approved 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. while ave resigned in

2020 due to poor healthy returned to japanese politics the following year. and continued to wield influence within the liberal democratic party until his death. japan, on bushings robert, hoisted a flag of free and open indo pacific. and i think that's the course the country ought to take a bipartisan, not among japanese leaders, that the way forward is by looking back on all that has been achieved into join wolf al jazeera. so michael penn is the owner. the shin gets to news agency and has more now or the investigation into others killing. we do know that the national police agency has launched an investigation of, of the events to try to see if the local team had made any mistakes in the way that they had conducted themselves in and trying to

protect mr. ave. but i think that's more generally speaking, you know, although they may have failed to spot the person who came up with his home a gun. generally speaking, it is not the case that in japan, high security is all around at all times. while there are a lot of police here, there that you know, there are a lot more engaged with the community than they are necessarily and expecting to, to be dealing with violent crime. so, you know, japan is kind of a much more relaxed society. i would say in this respect than most other countries, major countries around the world. so it's not exactly such a surprise that somebody could walk up to a politician of ave stature and to, to kill them, to a huge national and historical event. so, you know, i think that disbelief is something which is probably one of the primary reactions

to it. you know, ave has been such a stand by figure a japanese politics for so many years. you know, some people love him. some people hate him. but you know, he was always there and you know, this is the 1st day in say, the 21st century. when one of the big politicians in japan on the scene wielding influence is not chines ave. but joining us now from toko is freelance journalist phoebe, i'm a row. so good job. you were there. so look, i mean this assassination was clearly a huge security failure. what would be the priority now for investigators trying to understand this killing and and really, as i know, very my read finding her back to her with that many been only a little. okay. mm hm.

yes, i'm here. oh, very good. and you can really tell you how other how quality eligible. hm. has she been having some sound problems with you on this connection? i will try and get you back later if we can, but we're going to have to leave it there for now. because peter, the sound who does not understand what's happening at the moment. so phoebe morrow, so they're in tokyo at which on come back if he can. but let's move on in the meantime because even mosque has confirmed that he's terminating his 44000000000 dollar takeover of twitter. the tesla ceo's legal team says the social media giant bridge several provisions of the deal. twitter says it will soon muster and force the merger agreement with larry magic as a technology analyst and see of connect safely dot org. he says there are numerous

factors behind the decision. 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 kessler stock has gone down, which means twitter is worth less money. but also means that he has less money. i mean, his net worth it based largely on his tesla's stock. so his net worth has gone down to the other major factors. i might add that his 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 gonna to, it is going to go back to the wild west where 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. 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 must be being their

boss. i mean, many are very concerned. they're worried about what will happen to the policy that they put into place. and i, i think it has had a negative reaction reaction 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 low level, it would be hard to find an employee who is excited about the idea. the ukraine was costing a long shadow on the already complex relationship between the u. s. and china. foreign ministers of the 2 countries. a meeting at the g 20 in bali, china never condemned russia's invasion on just days before it began. beijing and moscow signed a so called no limits bought the ship, washington and beijing or rolls of odds of a tie. one shot as on visions in the south. china sea have been a source of tension as well. to refer to china in 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. 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 the mass of homes in a relationship is complex consequences between united states and china. there is a lot to talk about. i'm very much looking forward to productive constructive conversation. jessica washington has more now from bali while the official proceedings. if the g 20 foreign ministers meeting is really now over the world is still very much looking at what's happening in bali because of this foreign ministers meeting between the us secretary of state antony blinking. and his chinese counterpart one, it is the 3rd meeting ever and their 1st meeting since late last year. and now this

is part of a recent surgeon, diplomatic activity between us and chinese officials. that includes of course, a phone call between the u. s. president joe biden, and chinese president, she didn't being in march and also talk between defense officials in singapore general way from her met with the us defense chief lloyd austin. and those talks were also part of this flurry of diplomatic activity that we've seen throughout the course of these talks. we often see the same topics come off. of course, these are closed meetings so we can ever be certain exactly what comes up. the contentious issues such as the situation in taiwan, often a matter of discussion. we know that the u. s. has concerns that china is helping to change the status quo and is increasing its aggression in the taiwan strait. but from beijing's perspective, its concern is that the u. s. is meddling in its internal affairs. it considers taiwan to fundamentally be an internal, assess for aging, to manage. and also consider that the u. s. is meddling in matters that concern the

asia pacific and that should be managed by asian countries. we have heard from the chinese foreign ministry. they mentioned that the talks would focus on bilateral relations between the 2 countries. as well as some regional and international issues, including likely the war in ukraine. we also heard from the us state department who noted that the talks may also include matters of regional security. importantly, for this part of the world, se asia, those talk may also extend to the crisis in me and ma, so, so, so to come here now does air including us president joe biden lashes out of the supreme court over abortion, and vows to protect access someone written this moment and make the right decision, and the race begins to replace u. k. prime minister boris johnson as the conservative party proposed to elect annuity that morning. ah

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warm enough therein batted around. 33 degrees, good rashes showers across a tropical belt, easing over towards west africa. park is the very heavy rain there, just a round liberia, to sierra leone, some part sofa nigeria, also seeing some thundershowers from time to time, as per usual, as the south africa, southern africa, patrick, a dealer, dry weather, few showers to the east, and wet weather. coming in to the south, ah, in the 19 fifties and sixties african countries gained independence from the colonizers and increased efforts to reclaim the cultural heritage, 6000 bodies as story. yes, it's very hard. this new series reveals how european countries refused to request and even exhibited human remains in their museums, restitution africa stover. not episode to return on al jazeera.

ah ah, welcome back. a good reminder. the top stories here this morning. i've been placing flowers of the site where former japanese prime minister sions al ave was shot dead . he was the country's longest serving leader tribute supporting in from world leaders, joe biden. despite all that, as a man of 41 year old suspect, used a handmade gun to carry out the attack. the foreman navy also says he held a grudge against an organization that he believed. ave had links and even mosque has confirmed that he's terminating his $44000000000.00 takeover of twitter. the tesla ceo's legal team says the social media giant breach several provisions of the

deal. twitter says it will soon, muscular and force every now police and tr lanka. impose an overnight curfew in the capital, colombo after a student protest, turn violent protest as we're trying to march on the president's house. thousands of troops have been deployed in the capital ahead of a weakened rally for rankin's had been facing fuel and food, which is for months and foreign exchange reserves have run out, making it impossible to pay for info, chillman el fernandez, that today's protests near the president's home manella, so just bring us up to date with what's been happening, regular, hulu. we're just catching a breadth of to getting caught in a complete volley of tea aghast. which happened literally about 10 or 15 minutes ago, a essentially, the university students and other members of the public had congregated at one

point, which was one of the leading roads that leads to the president's house. and there's been a heavy, heavy security special task force presence, obviously. and that was one of the battery kids that there was a sort of a confrontation between some of the protesters. but the, the come back if you like, was just completely over the top, all of a sudden tear gas canisters started a raining down. there were literally 10 or 15 canisters that, that came not even in the vicinity of where the protestors were pushing against the barricades. that's the thing. it was more to disperse the protest as people started running. i mean, i, myself was caught up in it. your eyes burn your skin burns and you can hardly breathe. it's like you're short of breath. you're almost wheezing. and for all the hundreds of people who caught up in that area that was complete. may hm. those almost as stampede to get out because it is so, so difficult. what you see behind me is people that have come down the road

a little away from that confrontation, billing but, but it didn't take long. i mean, essentially a lot of these young people, a lot of young blood and the people here saying that they're not going to back down . they have been sort of of intimidated in the past. that it's not going to happen again. and this is what the protest here on the 9th of july was all about that people would dig in and essentially take a stand on to go to robert roger pox and his government leave or step down. now down this road, essentially it's all in the same vicinity and neighborhood as you can see, people coming down hearing of that sort of t, a gas attack or more people rather than run away, they're actually going to display solidarity with the people caught up. this leads to the goldfish green, which for months and months has been the scene of sort of sit down,

protest outside the president's office. so this is where it's all happening. all the attempts of the government to try and stop. this protest hasn't worked. they had curfew, they had to lift it, they stopped buses and trains. they stopped issuing fuel be know that officially all to try and prevent a sort of a gathering. but it's not work. people said they're fed up or domino fernandez, live for, stay in the shrunken capital columbia minute. thank you. so he was president assigned an executive order to help protect woman's access to abortion and contraception. joe biden criticized what he called an out of control supreme court, which recently overturned roe versus wade. that's the landmark routing that guarantee constitutional right to an abortion, my kind of reports from washington dc. new measures today. the presidents lasted the supreme court's recent decision, striking down at the 3 year old ruling guaranteeing women a constitutional right to an abortion. and this was not

a decision driven by the constitution. and despite, 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 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 an election november vote, vote, vote vote. consider the challenges 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 patience and providers, including setting up mo bile 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 in his 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 family of murdered al jazeera journalist, sharing a barclay as 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. sharina was shot in the head by his really forces was an assignment in janine and the occupied westbank on may. the level of the 1st candidate seeking to replace bars. johnson as british prime minister have announced their standing. johnston has angered many in his own party by insisting he'll stay for now rather than hand over to his deputy. let him barbara has the latest. a day off, devoris johnson said he'd stepped down attention turn to what and who comes next around the newly cleaned up palace of westminster. the talk is of a clean break of restoring, trusting governments. someone has to grip this moment and make the right decision. and friday, the 1st, the political, big to be 6 announced their standing of the previous chancellor receives tonight. and i have sent my co payment to see next one of 2 cabinet members whose

resignation led to a torrent of judy administers 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're 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? it's not a different type of policy. it's not parliamentary deadlock. as it was over,

teresa may with kelly to get her breakfast deal through. in this case, the problem is the prime minister and in particular the premises judgment, his integrity and the fact that he'd really lost confidence of so many people in his government. and that's meant that, that it's like weird that he's continuing the opposition. labor party still say you've 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 the tory party should remove him, and if they don't, we will step up in the national interest and bring them voted though confidence. it's unlikely that enough conservative m. p. 's would fax darma. 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. russia has vetoed a resolution of the un security council that sought to extend a deliveries to $4000000.00 syrians and the rebel controlled north western areas. ewan's warning that closing the corridor by the babel highway border crossing could be catastrophic. nearly 10000 trucks passed through the crossing last year, bringing humanitarian aid to millions of people. 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 became a facet, as former president blaze camp hoary has made his 1st public appearance alongside the leader of the ruling military jointer camp. corey has spent the past 8 years in exile and neighboring ivory coast after he was deposed in a popular uprising in 2014. but his return has led to protests as nicholas hart

never force. this is the 1st public appearance by blessed 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 power in a qu in january is calling for national reconciliation. z initiative to meet with former heads of state has only one aim to bring social cohesion in face of the challenging situation that our dear country working up also is facing. but compar is returned from 8 years in exile, has parked protest, and the capital was due to 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 brit cannot be president to muslim gar 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 want to go in the whole the government. their mission is to fight terrorism attacks by arm groups linked to isis, an arcade. i had 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 fossil 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 goldman president jose edwardo de santos has died at a medical clinic in barcelona. he was receiving treatment for a prolonged illness. del santo sled angola for nearly 40 years. stepping down in 2017. he died age 79 for me to mila. take the look back at his life.

after his retirement from politics in angola, in 2018, to say a 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 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 associate centers received many international awards with commitment to anti colonialism and promotion of peace negotiations. he was praised for developing and gold as oil rich economy and attracting significant foreign investment. but some accused him of being a dictator and creating one of the most corrupt governments in africa. the former president began his political career as a member and fighter of the anti colonial movement, the popular movement for the liberation of in go low m p l. a after goal is

independence from portugal in 1975. the son just became and called us 1st prime minister. he became president after the death of president augustine nato. in 1979 . he tried to improve relations with the way, including the united states, which did not recognize the 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 election. 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 down as a day in 2019 and went into exile in spain. he only returned to an goal of once and 2021 before returning to barcelona.