a young people clearly have the solution for future laws. this 77 percent every weekend, andy w with this is the w. news live from berlin. japan's former prime minister sions, or ave, dies after being shot during our campaign events. arby was giving a speech ahead of an election this weekend, or sat, the suspect, a former member of the japanese navy was arrested at the scene. we'll go live to

talk to you. also coming up as rush us vladimir putin wants that the war in ukraine is only just getting started. is foreign minister lashes out as the critics of the president's invasion saying there's no point in talking about peace. ah, i'm gabelle. as while come to the program. the former prime minister of japan sion so abby has died after being shot in this city of nara, during an election campaign of it, the politician was hit twice. officials confirmed mister arby had a bullet wound on his the right side of his neck, and also suffered a chest injury. he was rushed to hospital, but was later confirmed date. the 67 year old was japan's longest serving prime minister. he was known for his fiscal policy dubbed r b nomics, but he was

a controversial figure, often referred to as revisionists of history for his use on japan's role in the 2nd world war. for more we can now talk to journalist sonya bhaskar in tokyo. a truly shocking death for the prime minister ex prime minister sions, or are be, what more can you tell us? you know, shocking is the right word in the country is truly shocked. people cannot believe what happened this morning shortly before midday. this is not something that people are used to here in japan where guns are really rare, where it's really difficult to get a permit. and this type of violence is just really unusual and shocked. reactions are coming from, from all sides of the political spectrum and from also from people on the street. people just can't believe what happened today. now the, the suspect has already been arrested. what do we know about him?

yes i, we know that he is a 40 year old man from nora actually. and just over the last couple of hours, they searched his apartment and apparently found explosives there, which apparently were removed from the apartment. used to be a member of the self defense force for 3 years between 20022005. and it's not quite clear where he got the weapons from people experts say that it looks like he made it, and there was some tape around the weapon. and also the way it sounded and, and looked, it seems like it was self made up and he said he wanted to kill ave, because he was not content with with him, with his politics. but that the attack was not necessarily on. how should i call it, like an attack on a sort of political idea? it seems that it was more like a personal issue with other now since the abbey left office 2 years ago. but what

is his role in current japanese or was his role in current japanese politics and why was he on the campaign trail? he wasn't the campaign trail because despite stepping back from the role as prime minister 2 years ago, he's was really weighed heavily still in japan had a lot of importance. he was there to support other party members of the liberal democratic party ahead of the elections on funding. question is what if the elections will be held now, but also at the head of affection in his name. he really still had a lot of political. how now, shootings like this are very, very rare in japan, japan is very strict gun control laws as far as i understand. so. so what, how is the public reacting to this act of violence? i mean, obviously, like i said before, a very shocked people cannot believe that that happened. it's still unclear what,

what exactly was behind the attack and people have just expressed before the news broke. that they, they hope that they will be well now that you know all kinds of all kinds of good reactions were there about him. like is role as 8 years as the head of the government and all that. sure. he was also a very controversial figure, but they have, has been an outpouring of really brief from all parts of the political landscape, so to speak, including people on the streets. sonia laska then talk, you. thank you. you're welcome. russian president vladimir putin as won't that moscow's offensive in ukraine has barely begun. he also accused the west of fueling the war and set that it, it's efforts to defeat him. would bring tragedy to you, crime. he was speaking to parliamentary leaders,

is some of 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? we let them try. museum. we have often heard the wes wants us to fight it until the last ukrainian it, the threats a tragedy, the ukrainian people look what it looks like. it's heading in that direction. no sir, those, but everybody should know that largely speaking. sure that we haven't even yet started anything in earnest. but at the same time, we don't refuse peace talks, but those who refuse should no longer it loss the more difficult it will be for them to make a deal with us sledging year in would its name to the good. let's go straight to w correspondent and expire, so joins us from keith an an a car putins remarks being received in ukraine is not a very big official reaction. an adviser to president zelinski has said,

there are no western powers making anybody do anything in this country. there are, however, russian forces who are invading you, spoken to people who are visiting this monument behind me, which shall features the hawks of russian tanks and field artillery and asked them one man said, look, hootin is this messaging his own people. he's trying to show he's strong and at the same time he's trying to show the west, it needs to keep that hat, keep its hands off. ah, another woman that we spoke to said putin is essentially satan. this is totally diabolical. and then we wouldn't expect anything less from him. and finally, a young man we spoke to have a fighting age. i said, all this is going to do is steal the resolve of ukrainian soldiers. now the russians have eased all form their offensive in the don boss since capturing lucy chance. why is that? again, the answer is, you know, partly behind me if he cast our minds back to the beginning of the war. the russians planned to take over the entire country and were just at the gates of keep 45 minute drive from where i'm standing now before they were beaten back. thanks to

troops armed with western anti tank weapons. lots of a, you know, vehicles were taken out, many soldiers were killed. and so the advance is the russians have made recently in the hands are really to be, you know, put into that context. those battalion tactical groups need to be reconstituted. they've been decapitated in many cases they need to create fighting forces that can actually occupy the terrain. they have heavily, heavily shelled leaving scorched earth behind them. they can even, you know, properly take it over yet. none of the ukrainians, apparently advancing on the russian occupied city of parson. what will, can you tell us? yeah, there's a, you know, stuff that's happening in the army and there's stuff that's happening in the partisan force and that, and that's very murky, mysterious. but we know the video circulating on telegram and it's confirmed in various ways that the underground as it were, has taken out, for instance, a rail bridge servicing the a crimea. it has taken out an armored train carriage. it was carrying weapons and

all kinds of ammunition and doing all kinds of work like that. and the army itself is dictate, slowly moving forward in different parts to said to be about 20 kilometers from harrison itself. and the overall picture gearhart is, you know, you have up in the east the ukrainians fighting the russians. they made a sort of tactical retreat. but they can also hit in the south. and the rushes are having a hard time fighting on 2 fronts. and of course, ukrainians know that, and that's, that explains why there's this movement in that in that her son ins apple risha area did have you responded nick spicer talking to us from keith. thank you, nick. now let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. a contest to replace british prime minister boris johnson is on the way. after his resignation. as leader of the conservative party, he agreed to step down after almost 60 amperes, quit his government, following a string of political scandals. johnson said he will remain as prime minister until

the parties selects a new leader. in the u. s. a former police officer has been sentenced to nearly 21 years in jail for violating the civil rights of george floyd. director of it is already serving a separate 22 year sentence for killing floyd. a 46 year old black man and 2020 floyd, died after job in neil on his neck for over 9 minutes. the cheese 20 summit has opened in indonesia, where foreign ministers have to confront multiple crises, including the born ukraine, indonesia, foreign minister, read. norma. sooty welcomed her russian counterpart, sergey lovers before appealing for unity amongst the ministers and an end to the conflict. the hollywood actor james carne has died h 82. he was best known for his role as sony corleone in francis ford coppola as the godfather for which he was nominated for an academy award as best supporting

actor. he also appeared films by celebrated director robert altman. and howard hawks, germany has approved the applications of sweden and finland to join nato. a short while ago, members of the bundled stark ratified view session of germany's northern allies with a vast majority. much to the delight offi representatives offered 2 countries who weren't watching from the gallery of the decades of neutrality, sweden and finland moved to join the western defense alliance. in response to russia's invasion of ukraine gratification requires unanimous approval. but all 30, aren't they to remember states war that boat. let's bring it up. little corresponded in the house who was standing by at the bonus stock where that vote took place for a while ago. oh no, that was quite quick by german standards, wasn't it? it was indeed records feed,

the draft law was prepared in no time, and then the brought majority here, and parliament actually voted in favor. and of course, i'd heard from members of the parliament that germany had intended to become the 1st country to ratify. but then countries like estonia and canada were bit faster in the end, but still the message coming out of germany to day is very clear. it stands firmly behind the idea of finland and sweden joining nato. it is something that will party support with the exception of the left party. and of course, gemini has worked together very closely within an in sweden or many different levels over a long time now. so they are trusted partners. there can be no doubt that jo gemini, anthony, in sweden, also as fellow you members, share the same ideas. so this is something that germany wanted to stress with this record speed. but also of course, the idea is as that finland and sweden will have an enhanced security once they

become fully fledged members of nato. but overall nature, as an alliance will also become stronger and at that in the end will benefit germany. so does that mean that sweden and finland will be natal members in no time? no, it doesn't mean that at all, because it is expected that not all nato members will ratify quite as quickly as germany and the others have done. now there are 13 nato members and every single country still has the right to veto. and it has to be a unanimous decision to welcome finland and sweden into the lions. and turkey, of course, is the big question. mark. turkey is a native member, but it also still has ties with russia and tell that he in fact actually try to block finland and sweden from joining nato did give up, is resistance in the end, but it has since issued demands in return for ratification. so the big question of course, is, will a turkey or other countries use this process and their right to veto m in a,

for the idea of getting their own interest through in other fields. this is something to be watched. definitely, and pessimists say that it could take up to an entire year until and before sweden and finland become fully fledged members. and this is important because of course, only then will they be fully protected by the alliance. and it is also the reason why countries like germany, but also the united states and the united kingdom, for example, have already issued security guarantees for finland and sweden, in light of potential aggression coming out of russia. ok are on it. nina has a there. thank you, nina. and before we go, some sports is to former top football officials have been acquitted on charges of illegally stiffening fif up funds. a swift course found x, v for president that blotter and football legend, we shared plenty of france not guilty of corruption. the charges were in connection

with the payment of just over $2000000.00 euros, which gluttony received from fever during blood. his tenure as p for president in 2011 the payment was made for consultancy work with, for many years prior to the payment being made. both men were banned from football in 2015. and a quick reminder of our top story, former japanese prime minister since obey has been assassinated. he was shot while giving a speech at a campaign event medic say, albert led to death of sustaining wounds to the hot that's it from me. business is next. thanks for watching. come, mike, how can miss passionate hatred of a people be explained? your tongue go a history of anti.