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ah. private funeral has been held in tokyo pounds, former prime minister, shin zone abbe people lined the streets of the capital to pay their final respects as his body was taken from the georgia temple to the funeral. or has passed the prime minister's office and the parliament abbe was assassinated while campaigning at an election rally on friday. and he said, acknowledge security lapses at the event. a skater correspond antennae, chang, whose life rest in tokyo, tony talk through what we're expecting today. when she mentioned the voltage has been moving around the city targeting areas like bad courses for the l d. obvious political party, the japanese parliament building and the prime minister's office, of course, particularly significant the man who in japan's vote and history was the longest

serving prime minister earlier in the day. here behind me a temple there had been funeral ceremony held for close family and friends. it was quite an intimate. we saw people arriving very much taking place in the private a large crowd of people waiting outside, wanting to pay their respects, but also very silently with no spontaneous shows of grief or emotion. i think to a certain extent, people here are still very stunned. this has happened so quickly to a prime minister that although he had step down by the time he was assassinated, still loom very large on the political stage and have had such a profound impact on japan. for the past decade, tony, has there been any more clar say about how this assassination actually happened? how was it allowed to happen? he had a security team, denny, he did,

and i think there's been a certain amount of hand wringing here in japan. the security service themselves that said that every teens were not strict enough, that there was the opportunity for this to happen. but i think also to certain extent it's, it's understandable in a country where there are very few guns. there are incredibly straight gun controls . i think this was a threat that perhaps they hadn't both seen. i think you talk about people here whether they feel this is symptomatic of a danger that exists in japanese society. no, they don't particularly, but i think they are stand such a high profile. it could be a tags, nonetheless, this is not a common thing that we see in japan the think. and i don't think anyone feels this is the tip of the iceberg. but it is disturbing. i think a lot of people are somebody who has had such a profound impact on the country could be tough to quite so reasonable. thank you

for that tiny chang that for us live in take care. we can speak now to donna when she's a professor of political science at mu. so she know university in tokyo and a contributor at the lowie institute. thank you for joining us, donna. so, i mean, he will, he will of questions. i may be remembered for many, many things. he was an instrumental figure in japan, history and internationally. what do you think will be his most enduring legacy? luckily, i think from what people have been saying of the last few days, his enduring legacy is likely to be his foreign policy. if it's, he's overseas, if it's much more highly loaded than perhaps some of the more controversial domestic issues that he, that troubled much of his time as, as prime minister, which, you know, domestically some people don't want to forget. but obviously in the current context,

i think his ah, his attempt at recruitment with many countries, particularly in the southeast asian region. i saw reference to that this morning and i'm from australia. so i'm certainly australian political figures have been talking very highly of the efforts he put into the australia japan relationship for example. and what that is meant, particularly this region. they are ne, i suppose. and his death has been this rallied public support for his posse. i wonder if it could present the government with an opportunity to revise the country's pacifist constitution because that that was one of abbeys. lifelong ambitions wasn't it is, it certainly was and the outcome of the election. the result of the election on sunday, a loose coalition of some of the parties that want to see concentration revision when enough seats in that it can be we certainly pass through the

parliament. lekisha is being very rude and cautious, i guess in saying that of course it will be subject to a full parliamentary debate and subject to a referendum. now i've been in class all morning and until this afternoon, teaching students in fact, japanese politics. and so it's this very generation for whom abbe is really the only leader they've steve nolan. so it's been an interesting few hours for me to not exact student feel sassy the legacy use the now they are said and done. been talking to day to close to $200.00 students. the shot they know they can't believe that this has happened. one said he can't believe it's happened in this particular ear. these political assassinations of something he'd read about in history. he didn't expect to have to to, to witness this others just just stunned that the news thank through the way that

it did when we were in fact, also in class on friday. i wanted to ask you about a key abbe as she will now, that the former wife, the widow, now sions, obey who's been left behind. and from what i've read, they had a very openly loving relationship, which itself was quite rad, believe and japanese political cycle is so very sad, day for hat. but she has off is a very interesting figure, isn't she? what, what can you tell us about her? oh she is, and i think as a couple, as you say, as a prime ministerial couple, no children which was which would kind of interesting and unusual in some respects . she, on my impression of the 2 of them, you know, they, they certainly work together as a prime ministerial couple, but also had the very independent views and approaches to live as will appear of it is certainly an interesting person in that regard. but again,

she was also kind of tied into some of these more controversial issues that i think we'll talk about at a later date with some of the more nationalistic schools and, and so on. but look, largely, i think as a political spouse was you know, really very supportive and i have to say watching her arrive at the hospital on friday, she drew down from tokyo to the hospital in nara. and i must say, i really felt for her to, to have to confront her husband in that way. it was very young. you know, as all of the put politics aside over the weekend, political leaders, people like myself who teach into this area and have done for 30 years or so. i'm putting up politics aside, you know, it's been quarter a devastating thing to watch for mrs. ebay. and of course for ash and so having so many thanks for talking to us, donna weeks at professor political science at eaten was

a sheena university and take a thank you. thank you. speak of sher lancaster, parliament's as a new president will be chosen next week, often negotiations to form a new unity government. it follows unprecedented protests which thor, tens of thousands people stole the residences of the president and the prime minister. both have now agree to resign. michelle fernandez reports from columbus to distance, mover and keep political landmarks on saturday. say they're staying till the president and prime minister resign. thousands of others are streaming in to visit the official residences and this property, the presidential secretariat. we need a new system. we need a new governance needed new prov. you new proper leaders. so today via for change that and to bring this mission of a country prostate position via until we are fighting on to the end. that in seems close. but for testers, i'm not leaving,

they're angry and fed up with having to spend days in cues and to find the money to buy essentials, which have increased $3.00 to $5.00 times in price. present got of the raj boxes says he will resign on wednesday. political parties and parliament will elect a new president a week later. i'm glad read about unknown. any of the young. a government has to function according to the law. i'm here to protect the constitution and through it fulfilled the people's demands. what we need to day as an all party government and we will take steps to establish that getting agreement among different parties won't be easy. and there are warnings that it shouldn't take too long. the central bank governor has said that there has to be political stability very quickly in order to have the international community, the international monetary fund with whom negotiations are taking place in order to

ensure that that support comes in and go against the president and his government has been building for months. the lack of fuel has had a major impact on people's lives. on monday, a few fuel stations receive new supplies. for 5 days we have to wait for the queue, but they're giving $1500.00 for the bikes. that me 3 leaders really there's not enough for us. we are currently in the quartier service. that is only for one. daisy knew 60 no. as negotiations continue about a peaceful transition of our people are hoping this brings them some relief at vanelle fernandez is now life for us in colombo. manella was a traumatic few days last week which led to the resignation of the president and the prime minister. so fast, i want to ask you, what are the leadership alternatives to them? who could we see now in power? oh, well that's a strange case here in shall anchor. when you ask anyone they don't have like

a clearly obvious favorite. now obviously in terms. 2 of the political parties, there are a couple of people, the opposition leader subject premier is obviously sort of jumping out the bits to be given a chance to prove himself. 7 but still sort of trying to sort of meet that campaign to put him up there as an alternative leader. there is someone who has been very visible in the last few days. and that would be the former army chief who challenged by roger pox out of the 2010 election. that's general santa fonseca. he was court martial thrown in prison for daddy to take on the roger boxes. he's also had a lot of kind of the sort of a, a big political name. but in terms of constitutionally a would be lined up to sort of hold the baby if you like on to such time a national government is in place. so as i said,

nor real obvious indications of any frontrunners of leadership or obvious kind of leaders in the making. so that's another reason why there's such a lot of political wrangling and negotiations. parties here are trying to come together in terms of forming that national government and trying to make some kind of arrangement that can allow for a smooth transition of power. what do you tell us about the whereabouts of the president and the prime minister? i believe one of them at least has been trying to leave the country, but that hasn't been allowed to happen. oh, well, it's like this. it depends on who you talk to really does. a lot of speculation of this is bore with regards to the president and some of his brothers, a rather than prime minister on the vicar missing her in terms of the president. there were sort of a reports of

a speculation. there were 2 naval ships that were filmed by somebody on a mobile phone being loaded up with luggage in a mighty big hurry on the 9th. but there were no visible pictures of either go to a garage of parts of the president of the prime minister, the form of reminiscing, his brother mind the raj boxer, basil, roger boxer or the former finance minister. so a lot of people sort of speculating where they might be, the president is reported either bit to be hold up in one of the defense camps obese is there are other, um, sort of it claims that he is hold up in a couple of other secure locations, but he has maintained a strict silence, only making statements or comments through the speaker that is with regards to his resignation, which he says he will tender and step down on the 13th of july. however, beyond that, we haven't heard anything. we had that very strange, our comment or comments from the speaker yesterday in an interview. who said, yes,

the president is an india by country and that he would be coming back on the 13th a short, a very, very, very short time. later, he told another media outlet that he made a mistake. so one has to kind of try and figure out what exactly the game here is in terms of what they hoped to do. a one of the brothers, one of the roger pucks brothers, was reported to have gone to the international airport in the late hours of last night early this morning, trying to get on a flight to leave the country. and apparently the immigration officers had all essentially left their post refusing to stamp his visa. now he is obviously a do us citizen. ah, he also has u. s. nationality. so there are questions about even that country, a sort of allowing someone who is trying to potentially flee the long arm of the

law. there is also one last thing, a transparency international. the sort of anti corruption watchdog has filed and into has filed a fundamental rights petition with the supreme court naming most of the roger boxes and key figures of this administration and asking them for accountability about the field crisis. and that asks for an interim band on travel overseas that might explain the scramble up for them to leave the country because that hearing is coming up on the 14th. they're interesting to talk to you and i will speak again. michelle, fernandez their 1st colombo. so head on out, is there a leaders of the island nation gather in fiji, the southern withdrawal of cure bass batten's to overshadow ah

now it surprisingly wet and cold in eastern europe, which is a huge contrast to what's happening in most of your z y. huge medic slow moving cloud around this area of low pressure which is sitting there. this is contrast, bigger high pressure. this is warm, it's summer so it's sunny as well. this cloud coming in to scotland and norway. so this joins it with the little bit cool room where the stuff of that is very obese. running down through lithuania, east to sort of poland, belly root stats, going to be cold and wet with the potential of flooding. we've had some of it actually. and the same system in crimea just recently, we might see a bit more, a similar area. so that's east in europe or the colder, where the mark won't further west much, not in between. for example, vienna, you're getting close to it. vienna's temperature is above average by about 4 degrees in the wind. though starting on the breezy side drops off, but it is further west where things are really hot. and particularly once again in the southwest of spain, with seville, not reco breaking, but not far off it,

but well above the hour and staying there for the rest of the week. now that hot is also represented in land in morocco and analogy area, but it comes to an end in the sa hell, which is where we're still finding some pretty big showers and quite a long white horse with frank assessments. it sounds like you don't expect anything to change the problem. lebanon is actually structural lebanon needs and use a contract in order for it to solve this problem. informed opinions is not on the go with a government house knowledge to mr. in depth analysis of good days, global headlines, this is going to be very hard to explain to the public that instead of pushing back, no, it's actually got 2 new members inside story on al jazeera. ah

ah, welcome back to watching out as a reminder of our top stories us, our private funerals, been held for japan's former prime minister. sions, obey crowds, of people lined the streets to pay their final respects. ave was assassinated while campaigning, asking election body to speak of swan coast parliaments as a new president will be chosen next week. follows on the precedence of protests which the war, tens of thousands of people, storm residences, president of the small pacific island nation of kitty bass. has withdrawn from the crucial fiji based regional block. it says my canadian countries have been sidelined in the leadership of the pacific allan forum. the summit comes as australia, new zealand,

on the u. s. the trying to push back against china's growing influence in the region. beijing signed a security pack, the nearby solomon islands in april, in the volatiles i've had in the discussions i've had in my previous visits and in the dialogue to die. leaders talked about the challenges, the raging faces climate change cause it and the recovery from kind of a both of which have fallen harder on this rate and then on many other parts of the world. and of course strategic competition and all the nations of this region are seeking to navigate. although nations are seeking to navigate those challenges, and we do it best when we can do it together and then see purchase strategies taken . that c approach at the pacific on form is taking and that is why pacific for immunity is so important. when hey, has more from fiji is capital silva. this meeting all the pacific islands form as seen as the perhaps the most important one in

a very long time. partly because it's the 1st time that the leaders have been able to come together face to face, to meet in 3 years because of the coven. 19 pandemic. and also it's crucial because of all those. dia, geopolitical tensions that are ongoing at the moment. and then we have kid abbas and their decision to withdraw seemingly at the last minute. but this is a problem that's been going on for a long time. in fact, we go back to the beginning of last year when the 5 micronesia countries that are members of the pacific islands form including kit abbas signal that they were going to leave this pacific islands grouping for a couple of reasons. but mainly because they were unhappy with that election process that took place to find a new secretary general of the pacific islands forum. they felt that there was an, an agreement in place that would allow for the new leader to come from one of those micronesia countries. instead, after a hotly contested vote, i had went to henry puna of the cook island so that clearly that is an issue that has been bubbling away for the last,

almost 2 years. ukrainian forces say they've destroyed a russian military ammunition deeper in the southern city of nova copa in the castle region. neighbor, residential buildings have also been damaged. cave has called on civilians to leave parts of the region as it plans to recapture some areas last to moscow. the u. s. president says he's determined to ban assault weapons that are often used in mass shootings. speaking to whitehouse event, joe biden said the u. s. is a wash in weapons of war. he was showcasing a new cross faulty lo aimed at reducing gun violence legislation gradually toughened requirements for young people to buy firearms. gun are the number one killer of children in the united states. more than car actions, more than cancer. and over the last 2 decades, more high school children have died from gunshots than on duty police officer and active duty military combine. think of that. now we can't just stand by.

we can't let it happen any longer. with rights come responsibilities. yes, there's a right to bear arms. we also have a right to live freely without fear for our life. it is the 1st anniversary of a nation wide anti government protests in cuba, demanding social and economic reforms. police and special forces happened patrolling the streets of havana cubits as the u. s. was behind last year's demonstration. the largest island has seen since fidel castro took power in the 1950s. right. as, as on the streets of the canyon capital assuring their frustration ahead of general elections. people are unhappy about rising prices, stagnating wages and heavy debt catherine sore put already. oh, protests like this in can you have become frequent this time the speaking

out against the rising cost of basic food prices. many people here say life has become unbearable in a general election in august is making things more difficult. with julia manion is a casual walker on a good month. she owns about a $100.00. so every coin counts. i did, he got, she said the cost of her basic supplies have doubled in the last few months. i am a former, doesn't in one any longer, agree struggling to make ends meet you. mayflower has doubled cooking oil has become unaffordable. my children, i have adjusted our food rations. i feel like and balanced all my need. my voters are electing a president and peas, senators, governors and other electoral seats. politicians are using this campaign season to promise that they will click the economy. but many voters,

unless they say they are these on and they don't trust them. who does the economy say a new government will find it hard to lessen the burden for most people? this is partly because of a huge public debt. much of the money has been borrowed from china for large project like these expressway. some government officials have also been accused of corruption by inflating costs. we're pixel vice president. this is the devil's breakfast. you have just ordered the devil's breakfast. well, $100000000000.00 by the time they pick up a $100000000000.00 in public bit. ah, we're now boring to pay interest on previous warren. so back manion use family home. she prepares a basic meal. she's behind on her rent and school fees. she's running out of ways

to make more money. she tells us she's living in incredibly desperate times. catching soy, i'll jazeera nairobi, british track, and field star mo, fora has revealed. he was a victim of child trafficking. he says he was smuggled into the u. k. from did you beauty as a 9 year old and forced to work as a domestic servant, a full time olympic gold medalist and 6th time well champion says he was given the name mohammad far by the woman who took him from his family. he says that his real name is his st. abdi cain, the u. k is governing conservative parties and vowed the time table to replace outgoing prime minister and boris johnson. and you later will be announced on september the 5th. that will be off to several rounds of voting by m p 's, which began on wednesday where we chance reports the u. k. sweltering through a midsummer heat wave. but the country's political temperature has been at boiling

point for days now. and i want you to know how sad i am following the prime minister's resignation announcement last thursday. conservative m p's of the 1922 committee gathered to set the rules and time table for how to replace boris johnson nominations will open and close. tomorrow. we'll have a 1st wednesday and a 2nd, but it is likely on thursday. what we try to do is find a balance. we'll make sure that all of interest to completed reasonably rapidly before the summer recess. but we do believe we can have that proper discussion within the policy. someone has to grip that conservative m. p. 's aiming to whittle down a wide field of candidates to just to by next thursday. then over the rest of july and august, the parties 200000 members, will choose the next leader, prime minister. it's a tight schedule,

but they will do all this done by early september. i think it's a wide open race, and ultimately the conservative party can be worried about the blue and blue attacks. i think that doesn't look good to the wider electron, so they're gonna want to try and shorten that as much as they can. i think it looks like she's seen the front runner and he's the man to catch. there is one person in all of this who's been conspicuous by his absence, forrest johnson. of course, he's been pretty quiet since his resignation, speech last week while he was out in front of the cameras again on monday. when he stand on the right to replace him. i don't want to say any more by that there's a, there's a contest underway and this happened and you know, i would wish i wouldn't want to damage anybody chances by offering my support. i just have to get i have to get on. meanwhile, the opposition is picked up on the general promises of tax cuts. conservative leadership hopefuls are falling over themselves to make and found them affable. the

almost around we cannot think well of the way the contenders make bold the 200000000000 pounds with the funding spending commitment. wonderful. you think that's more than the annual bunch of the splunk on the pages the sunday papers without the word of how it will be paid. fantasy will soon meet reality galloping inflation, economic stagnation and a major war in europe is just a few problems from the prime ministers in a tray. it may be.