[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, japan's former prime minister sions, or ave, has been shot at a campaign event. they was giving

a speech ahead of an election this weekend. we'll get the latest from tokyo, also coming up. russia's vladimir putin says the war and ukraine is just getting started. our correspondent and keep here is from 2 ukrainians, living in the russian health city of harris on about life under occupation, and why they decided to stay and will bars. johnson remain u. k. prime minister, while his successor is chosen, he wants to stay on for the summer and peas and the british public may not be willing to let that happen. ah, i pablo foley as welcome to the program. former japanese prime minister shinto abbe has been shot in the city of nara, during a campaign event. the politician was shot at twice with officials confirming mister abbey had a bullet wound on the,

on the right side of his neck. and also so free to a chest wound, the attacker who made no attempt to flee the scene, has been detained by authorities. japan's current prime minister to new york is shita has confirmed that shins or abbe is in a very grave condition. he described the attack as barbaric this morning in our prefecture whom former prime minister, shinto arby, was shot, and is currently in a serious condition. oh, that's what i'm told her motto he's currently being treated in intensive care to save the life. it was 1st late, more than anything else. i pray from the bottom of my heart that the former prime minister will survive it. emma will for more we can now talk to journalist sonya blushed. her who's in the japanese capital, toko. sonya good to see you. so what's the latest you can tell us about abbeys, condition well,

so far we are still waiting for further details on as you mentioned in the report on his situation is very grave. he was responsive right after the attack, but apparently later lost consciousness and talked to say that he suffered a cardiac, a rest. and usually in japan, this is another word for. well, let's say that's the term they use before officially, this is confirmed. obviously still people have high hopes that he will make it through our praying for him. people are very shocked here. so it's a huge thing for japan. deeply shocking indeed. can you tell us a little bit more about the suspect because he was arrested at the scene? yes, no new pictures have come up that show him relatively young looking men, much younger than his 41 years. standing close to the scene, he was seen walking very slowly towards the prime minister and pulling some sort of

weapon which media say it was hand made. and the 1st shot was fired. smoke arose and turned round, facing him, and that's when he got a 2nd time. the man is apparently from the wrong way or the attack took place, and he used to be a member of the japanese self defense force until 2005 for 3 years. so we can assume that that's where he learned how to use such a weapon. you know, we're just seeing some images there. sonya, of actually the moments. and when this shooting took place, very shocking indeed. and now a machine to obey left office 2 years ago. but what was his role on the campaign trail? head of these elections on sunday. he was really there to support the members of his liberal democratic party. and he had left politics officially on the left politics, but left the post as the prime minister 2 years ago,

saying that he wasn't well enough physically to continue the job. however, and he's been very instrumental behind the scenes and was the head of the largest faction within the liberal democratic party. so his support on the campaign trail for the candidates obviously means a lot. and he's word in japan is still very much very important for people. sonya you mentioned before that there's obviously a great sense of shock m of c a around the world but, but as well in japan because it's not a country that has a very high at rate will say of violence like this as shootings are incredibly rare, right? yes, yes. the 3 cases of politicians in the last several decades. this is really something very uncommon. and the only cases when weapons are used here are usually among members of the mafia. groups. other than that,

shootings are extremely rare. and like i said that the weapon that he has used it looked really handmade. there was some tape around it. so it's, it's a bit unclear. also, the fact that there was smoke indicates that it wasn't a regular weapon. thank you. sonya sonya glasgow on the story force in tokyo. thank you. you're welcome. well, there's been international reaction as well, and that's coming in after the shooting option. so the former japanese prime minister, the white hiv says it's shocked and saddened secretary of state antony blinkin has spoken in the last hour. i do have to say before with that we are right about the way we don't know

john or force. i'm very very, very sad. we're waiting. moving on, russian president vladimir putin has warned that most goes offensive in ukraine has barely begun. he also accused the west of fueling the war and said that it's efforts to defeat him would bring tragedy to you. crank. he was speaking to parliamentary leaders. here's what he had to say. to renew my solution. we're hearing that they want to defeat us up william on the battlefield. what can i say? let them try mozambique. we have often heard the wes wants us to fight it until the last ukrainian it that there it's a tragedy for the ukrainian people, but what it looks like is heading in that direction. no, sir, those was but everybody should know that largely speaking. sure that we haven't

even yet started anything in earnest. 3 of them at the same time, we don't refuse peace talks. but those who refuse should no longer loss the more difficult it will be for them to make a deal with us slaves in year without a mere perkins forces now dominate in eastern and southern cities in ukraine, such as have sun back in june, the occupying administration announced a referendum on joining russia, but when this will take places on care, many harrison residents won't be around to vote. tens of thousands are believed to have left for ukrainian control territory since russia seized the city. reporting on the ground has become all but impossible for independent western journalists. t w's. ne conley spoke with 2 locals about life under occupation. now, in the beginning, we all thought the occupation would be over in a week. it was only a few months in that we finally understood that the russians were here to stay.

it's still very similar to what it. ready was in with 5 and 4 as i was a little window, a red flag a. ready those look very familiar with all my friends have left. the other generation is gone. only the pensioners have stayed. yes. there's so many people in need right now and on. now these people are not able to get the money that they have on their gums. a people. ready are trying to get the russian, so those 10000 rouble did this a b q together. so i think that they give this a normal by condition. there are some i only heard about the plans for a referendum to join russia from the ukrainian press with that no one's talking about it here for home. it also why and daily and on and

before it got fully milder vehicles. but in fact, there are many places where we're actually do the dirty. and of course you don't hear about that many people working left. i see also many authors on the seeds on facebook telling him that this or that person is missing. when the russians came on, we were expecting things would be as bad as in mary. you, paul? mary. know we were scared to even look up the window. it was sheer panic was saying that the was the year to damage the fact that we can leave the house and buy food. we seems like a miracle. unluckily or is it just a 2nd baby girl was i always tried to just if, if the russians are shooting or on the ukrainians are covering russians was they

were selling the same with nothing changes. i'll also end up leaving. it's only my parents and my grandma that are keeping me here for now. the only ones who did the graham's delivery, the question is how and when, and we got a, a gummy marathon rather than well for more on the situation in ukraine were joined by dw, corresponded nick spicer, who's in the capital. keith, nick, you're to see you. now the russian president vladimir putin warned on thursday that russia's only just getting started in ukraine. how are putin's remarks being received? where you are there's not a lot of official reaction. a presidential adviser, reacted to put in a statement that western powers are ready to fight russia down to the last ukranian by saying there are no western forces in ukraine. there are only russian army

soldiers in this country. so not much of a reaction, but let's we've been talking to people here. i'm standing outside of saint michael's monastery, which is in historic place in a ukrainian capital. and i'm surrounded by vehicles which are destroyed by the ukrainian army. so russian tanks and armored, we asked people what they thought about the statement. one man said something particularly interesting. he said this is a message for the russian people so that they know that the conflict is ongoing, that russia is strong and washer, will conquered. in part, to make people forget how things went very poorly. in the beginning, when russia actually tried to take the capital, cutting this monastery and all of the lines around it and failed and was and was repelled. and the 2nd part of the message, he said, and i think this is true, this is a message to western powers that vladimir putin resolve is in no way flagging. now the russians have eased off on their offensive in the dunbar since capturing lissy chimes. why is that nic? well,

the official reason from the russians themselves is for an operational pause. i'm going to have my camera depend to the left to help explain the reasons for that operational pause or heavy heavy russian losses inflicted in that race. the capital, an attempt to invade essentially the entire country losses of many, many tanks, artillery units, and personnel, the battalion, tactical battalion groups that constitute the lego bricks, if you will, the russian army were all broken up and there, reconstituting them, putting men together, who are not used to fighting together and actually press ganging men in the occupied lou hands region into the army telling there's a job available to them and all of a sudden they're enrolled in the russian army. so that's what the operation. no pause is all about. it's about basically be constituting their forces in order to continue continue their attacks on the invasion. nick, we saw him, our colleague at nick connelly's report there at which was focused on the the city of harrison that the ukrainians are advancing on the russian occupied city of had

somewhat more. can you tell us that it's really important to talk about that because we always, you know, we focus a lot on lou hanson and donuts can that, that big battle has been taking place there. but there's a battle to the south, and the russians simply don't have the means to fight on 2 fronts. so with the ukrainians are doing r as, as nick was reporting, you know, resisting the presence of russians, particularly in the town of her son. they're not participating by not using the rubel, they'd like them to oppose, perhaps boycotting the referendum. and there's also partisan, so an underground that is blowing up railway tracks, railway bridges, armored railroad cars carrying ammunition, doing all kinds of things. we're probably only hearing a little part of it in order to push back. meanwhile, the ukranian troops are shelling and slowly advancing their within about 2020 kilometers of course on city. so dw correspondence exposure in keith,

thank you. british prime minister, or as johnson wants to stay in office until his successor is chosen, but he may not be able to. johnson announced his resignation on thursday after a mass revolt from within his conservative party ministers and party members had enough of a series of scandals and his handling of them. and the idea of johnson staying on for a few more months isn't popular with every one. a moment's long delayed, finally becomes unavoidable. good afternoon, everybody. it is clearly now the will of the parliamentary, conservative party that there should be a new leader of that party in the apple, a new prime minister. without saying resign, johnson said he would stay on until a new leader is in place. he lamented his conservative colleagues. eccentric push to change, prime minister, i mean economic challenges, but as we seen at westminster,

the heard instinct is powerful when the heard moves. it moves and my friends in politics, no one is remotely indispensable. watched by his wife and staff, johnson recalled his landslide election when in 2019 his completion of briggs it and passage through the corona virus pandemic. and i want you to know how sad i am to be giving up the best job in the world. but them the brakes. thank you very much . johnson speech closes one chapter but opens the door to a period of political uncertainty, the opposition and some in his own party say he should leave office immediately. it is to go completely done of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months, his inflicted life fraud and chaos in the country. but johnson has made a career of hanging on to power and wriggling out of trouble. i've developed moral his careless thought to the pandemic, so im hospitalized with coven 19

a persistent. he survived that. and later outrage at parties held in his office during lockdown. booze from the public at the queen's jubilee in early june. were followed by a vote of confidence which he won, but was left damaged. mister, the tipping point came after revelations about sexual misconduct within his party, leading to high level ministerial resignations. after quitting his conservative party leader, the clock is now ticking on johnson's period. as prime minister was more than this were joined by nicholas island. he's a professor of politics at royal holloway university of london. nicholas, thanks for joining us on dw bars. johnson says he's staying on as prime minister until his successor is elected, but that's deeply unpopular by many within even his own party. so how viable is it for johnson to carry on in his role or constitutionally speaking, this is really

a matter for the conservative party to decide. i suspect everything's and so unpredictable, the recent weeks. at the moment it looks like he might cling on an office as people have been putting it, the cabinet has announced that will confirm that they're happy with him to continue the can't take prime minister. some people have said that is on life carries risks electrically and governmentally. but once the conservative party is elected, it's 922 committees i could have next week. maybe that will help bring some clarity to the situation. so the time being, it looks like he's going to say no of his release for a while. nicholas, we have a clearer picture about who will try to replace johnson. not really. i mean, how are hates about him? and inevitably, people already beginning to tend to be further into the ring. some people have already declared. some people have confirmed that they're not going to run natively dominic rob,

and michael gave. but the big hitters yet to formally declare candidacy. i think again, everything will become a lot clearer next week once the conservative party is confirmed, the rules that are actually going to apply for the leadership contests. then i sent over the weekend. i think we can expect some of the really heavy on the big beast and the conservative party who would fancy the chances. they'll probably come out and the weekend. right. nicholas, while among those candidates, can we expect a change in direction for the government? how much of a change will depend on the cause who actually become the new prime minister in so far as the thought, the changes that we can expect? probably the biggest change will be in style rather than policy style. because it personally, the prime minister has really brought forest johnson down. so whoever becomes the conservative leader we want to, i think very clearly signal

a break with his style of politics. his cavalier attitude, the rules in terms of policy as well. the new prime minister won't have a electro mandate of their own that govern on, but also it's not the case that has either much space or much appetite for a particularly big change of direction in the conservative party. so i think for the time being whoever becomes lead to expect more of a change in style rather than substance. nicholas alan, professor of politics at royal holloway university of london. thank you. thank you . foreign ministers of the g. 20 developed and emerging economies are gathering in bali, indonesia, against a backdrop of the war in ukraine and, and international food crisis. russia's foreign minister, sir gala ralph has already departed the meeting. he dismissed what he called the west frenzied criticism of the war, saying it's distracting. world leaders from dealing with issues affecting the

global economy. as the holder of the g twenty's rotating presidency, indonesia has offered to mediate between russia and ukraine. president joker, we don't launched a piece building mission last week, visiting both moscow and keith. ciocca widow has sought to maintain good relations with both russia and ukraine. indonesia is what vladimir putin calls a friendly nation for moscow. unlike any of the western powers, remote garcia above widow has refused to give in to western pressure to exclude vladimir putin from the summit of g 20 leaders in november. his visit to moscow and key of last week reflected a delicate balancing act as ragamuffins as i'm bigger. what i said in key. if i repeat here once, though, the current situation is still hard, we must keep opening more room for dialogue. i have conveyed a message from president zalinski to president putin, and i express my readiness to become

a communication bridge between the 2 leaders. gallow throws beside the booker, the content of that message from zalinski was not laid. public widow was the 1st asian leader to visit here since the war began. he invited presidency lensky to attend the g 20 liter summit in november, even though ukraine is not part of the group. widow has expressed sympathy with ukrainians over the war and said the countries territorial integrity must be respected. prior to the meeting, he told the key if suburb of a pin to witness the devastation 1st hand. indonesia is sending humanitarian aid to ukraine. but as declined to provide weapons for use against russian forces, widow came fresh from an international summit in germany, where he was able to compare notes with western leaders and meet with those who have previously sought to persuade vladimir putin to end the war. indonesia has had success in the past, in mediating,

in regional conflicts in asia. but would odo says he has no illusions about the complexity of the russia ukraine wall. and, and remind with those complexities zalinski hinted he would only attend the g 20 summit if put in is not there. but the kremlin says putin has already confirmed his attendance. that's good. so more insight now from shaqia moore, he bought, she is deputy executive director for research at the center for strategic and international studies in jakarta. chavo, thanks for joining us. on d. w. so indonesian president joker widow recently visited russia and ukraine on a trip. he called a peace mission as we saw. what's indonesia position on the war in ukraine? well, with this tradition of neutrality and non alignment in the need to have to be very careful on the whole ukraine war debate. the very nice of being drawn into

conflicts has been more apparent when it faces so many challenges at home. so it has somewhat contributed in the need. you're not having really a clear stance on this issue. so this was indeed garnering a lot of attention. indeed, i think we're indonesia stand on this issue and also on this particular trip and can be looked at from 2 perspectives. first in the media as an individual country. and 2nd, as you've been discussing in the, the current president of the 20. and i think the latter part really played a big role. why is now seeking to be more active in this issue geographically, and he just, you know, far away from the war, yet the implications of the war has been felt at losing the increase on oil prices . so these are things that are really high on the agenda for, you know, what kind of leverage does the indonesian president have in the region?

well i think well in the region, i mean, indonesia is the largest country in south asia and has been somewhat of a leader in the association of is asian nations next year we're taking over yeah. chairmanship of yes, a solution and i think in an effort you sense the balancing act that mean that struggle with over the last few months. i think this is the question whether there is a rule for states outside of the major countries to contribute in resolving conflict . and i said, i can tell you when they are so many things at stake in this regard with us. again, what i mentioned about wouldn't oil prices, so you leverage in your region and he is, i think whoever the leader of, you know, a lot of leverage in the region in southeast asia. and i think that's something that we don't strike also to approach is issue like that,

that the warning brain chassis on the back from the center for strategic and international studies in jakarta. thank you. thank you. american basketball star brittany griner has pleaded guilty in a russian court to drug charges. the trial of the 2 time olympic gold medalist began last week. she faces up to 10 years in prison after being detained at a moscow airport in february authority, se vape canisters containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. her family has called on us president joe biden, to secure her release in tennis on a shove, were continues to make history at wimbledon. only a few days ago, she became the 1st arab and african woman to reach the semi final of a grand slam. now beach is in is the 1st to reach a final in the open era. the world number 2 is finally living up to expectations

after beating rival and close friends. tatiana, maria, 623661. she'll face russian born cousin, player, alaina me burkina in saturday's final here's a reminder of our top story. former japanese prime minister sions, or ave, has been lifted to hospital after being shot during a campaign event. the suspect a former member of japan's navy was arrested at the see that's all for now of next is to the point tito can use current affairs and politics talk show on public foliage from me on the team here in britain and thanks for watching. see again at the top of the next hour, ah ah,

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