this is d.w. news coming to you live from berlin. time as japan's prime minister is over in the last hour he announces that he's stepping down due to poor health it comes just days after he became his country's longest serving holder of the office will go to tokyo for the latest. coming up donald trump takes aim at his democratic rival in a fierce acceptance speech. joe biden is not a savior of america so. here's the destroyer of america's

jobs and if given the chance he will be the destroyer of american great players. trying to present himself as the defender of law and order and calls the members vote the most important election in u.s. history. plus the embattled president a bill returns to russia for help protests continue in the compliments despite a crackdown 20 journalists are among those detained including a record. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us japan's longest serving prime minister shinzo has announced his resignation because of health problems after serving for nearly 8 consecutive years he's been diagnosed with a relapse of the bowel disease that led him to resign during his 1st internet office in the mid 2000. during his latest tenure he oversaw japan's recovery from

a devastating earthquake tsunami and nuclear disaster and pursued and then vicious economic program known as you know. called the decision to leave before the end of his tenure gut wrenching in kill. you know even though i have not but one year to go in my kenya i'm a domino effect and with the. challenges the have not been i was arrested yet. amid the virus outbreak. i decided to step down as the prime minister. of what i would like to. do i sent my apologies to the people which of. let's cross over now to tokyo where journalist michael penn is covering this story and michael just gave a press conference in which he confirmed his resignation why exactly is he stepping

down well. the reason which seems to have triggered it at this moment is his health problem which is all sorts of collided. it was it was that reason that that made him step down in in 2007 at the end of his 1st premiership which only last near and it appears to be that he is receiving a relapse it may also be rather stress related i mean he's he's not had a very good year and in fact for several years he's been fighting off various scandals so you know it could be that he got to the point where the stress began to get to him and his health condition deteriorated. is it clear yet who will succeed shinzo as prime minister of japan. it is not it's going to be a real contest a real election because there are

a number of of ambitious politicians who are likely to throw their hat in the ring and it it will be a contest we know who some of them are i think the sort of the the flag the standard bearer for the anthony abbate wing is she giving the shiba. former foreign minister has already indicated that he will be running the chief cabinet secretary yoshida suga is expected to be a likely candidate and there are several others so it could be quite quite an interesting election. she of course is japan's longest serving prime minister he just reached that landmark a few days ago what sort of mark has he made on the country. well it's very interesting those who are the big fans of all day and those who have greatly feared and detested him for all of these years. in some ways we're both wrong to some extent because it looks like his legacy is going to be much less than

expected you know despite having such a long premiership many of the things which he did get done. the achievements that he did have have mostly unraveled during this 2020 year with the with the covert $1000.00 pandemic and the and the economic crisis so he gave a stable period in japanese the rule of government after many prime ministers who wait for one year and out and strengthen the central government but beyond that you may have very few serious legacies going forward michael thank you very much that was journalist michael penn in tokyo. now to the u.s. where donald trump has accepted the republican party's nomination for kate the presidency yet his acceptance brought the party's 4 day convention to a close and came amid simmering tension over police shootings and racism this week

the republicans have pitched themselves as the party of law and order a point that drove home repeatedly in his address this election will decide whether we save the american dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. thank you it will decide whether we rapidly create millions of high paying jobs or whether we crush our industries and said millions of these jobs overseas as has foolishly been done for many decades your vote will decide whether we protect law abiding americans or whether we give free rein. to violent and our kids and agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens. and this election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life or

whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it that won't happen. our correspondent in his poll is in washington was following trump's speech in his how is donald trump's nomination speech going down in america. i tarried really depends who you ask right like. the liberal media call it a far too long speech full off lies and. beloved broadcasts of fox news says president chances after delivering one of his best speeches they call this a trump big night. to what degree in as did donald trump uses speech to reach out to voters beyond his traditional base.

i think it was a very effective speech she reached out to his base and just played everything they wanted to hear if you can say so but he also made some remarkable convincing points i think. to possible swing voters when he talks about his plan really bringing back the economy specially when he talked about hollande strongly he will fight china so there were some moments which probably went down pretty well also for those who would rather have thought there will never be able to vote for donald trump ok now both the democrats and the republicans have their nominees in place what can we expect from their campaigns as we move toward the november election no. right so normally we would see many many rallies right but because of the pandemic this won't happen so it's extra

exciting to watch both the vice presidents and all the vice president and the vice president candidates come in the highways and the president and joe biden during the debates and it's possible that coming here is kind of mike pence but. interesting to see how the 2 biden i answer is to this very strong and kind of . president don't 'd trump ines thank you very much good to see you. in this poll in washington. russia's president vladimir putin has said he's formed a police force to support the embattled president. but instead he had acted in response to work request from although he said the force would only be used if events got out of control meanwhile police in the capital have again arrested dozens of anti-government protesters a number of journalists were also held

a reporter was among them but she was later released. day 19 of the protests against bella brissie and president alexander lukashenko saw dozens of women stand in a chain of solidarity to highlight another flash point of the police crackdown a peaceful and respectful showdown in the independence square in minsk with tensions run high the night before security forces arrested around 50 people and when dozens of sought refuge inside of the st simon and st helena church policed lock the main. president lukashenko is both trying to exert control by his own means and secure with the support of his longtime ally russian president vladimir putin. he would like us to provide him with appropriate assistance if necessary i said that russia would fulfill all its obligations. the words match those of the joint security treaty between the countries but perhaps were not the rousing woods

of unqualified support the bill of dictator of 26 years was looking for. a book. it will only be used when extremist elements using a political slogans as cross a certain boundary and. start setting fire to cox houses which banks russia trying to seize government buildings and administrative buildings. so mr lucas think those regime remains isolated from europe and now waiting for russia who has yet. he's not willing to intervene while protest peaceful. correspondent nick connolly is covering developments there nic tell us more about the demonstrators have been arrested. are they being held and how are they being treated. good morning terry well this is a difficult to say at this point because telephones are. taken away from people

detained by police on the square protesting here this is interesting in so far as there hadn't been many arrests for the past week or 2 protesters had to go out they were filmed by security services yes the evening then a group of what's believed to be about 70 to 80 people detained on independence square and interesting lead the authorities doing their best to prevent reports filming reports threatening reporters with detention if they were to film this and this is indeed what happened including to my colleague who spent about 6 hours into tension she was to provide access to her phone to provide she refused to do that and when she refused to that she was only released today had confiscated her phone so really tempted to crackdown on protests and coverage of those protests it's been almost 3 weeks now since the election little has changed do you get the impression

that the protest movement is losing momentum. i'm not sure that's the case i think with the big question is where does this all go there is no roadmap for this kind of protest this is a country that essentially was without politics for a quarter century opposition politics was a very nice activity and now suddenly you have 2 to 300000 people coming out to the streets of minsk in a country of only 10000000 people so suddenly all over the place and people grasping for new forms of organization new kind of position council and people. trying to work out who will lead this or if they even need a leader so i think that is the big question now where this goes but there doesn't seem to be any. great fear on the part of the test is any great willingness to stay at home and to stop coming out and it's just totally unclear for now how this would go on given that the government is refusing any kind of dialogue ok that's the protesters but what about look at how much support does he still have president

lukashenko does he still have the full backing of the military for example. seems for now that the top brass is on his side but there have being ever more resignations from people the boots on the grounds that policeman all me. soldiers and people throughout the structures who have left some of them left the country for fear of reverberate of reprisals off their decision to leave the government service i think the sheer numbers make it very difficult for the government to crack down fully. to 300000 people that is unprecedented and. goes regime simply doesn't have enough people to put all these people behind bars so i think there is certain safety in numbers for now but what's going no one can say for now the confrontation continues nic thank you so much state of usenet connelly there in minutes. and just a reminder the top story that we're following for you this hour japan's prime minister shinzo is resigning because of poor health comes just days after he became

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