[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. japan's former prime minister sins or arby dies after being shot during a campaign event. abi was a giving a speech ahead of an election this weekend?

medic say he bled to death after sustaining severe injuries to his heart will go live to talk. also coming up as russia, vladimir putin warns that the war in ukraine is only just getting started. is foreign minister lasha south have critics off the gremlins invasion and says there's no point in talking about peace and are corresponded in keith. here's from 2 ukrainians, living in the russian health city of hassan. they tell him about life under occupation and why they decided to stay ah, i'm go ahead else as well. come to the program. japan's former prime minister sions all arby has died after being shot at a campaign event. police say 41 year old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting. abbey was the country's longest serving premier and was well known

for his strong economic and defense policies is killing, has shocked japan the nation where firearms are strictly regulated. and political violence is extremely rare. ah, the moment shin, so aren't they? we shot twice, a suspect man handled to the ground. what appears to be a weapon lying on the road near by. people run to the age of japan's former prime minister as he lay seriously wounded. he was quickly transferred to helicopter and flown to hospital. at this point, his condition was described as critical, but doctors were unable to save him. confirming his death,

the hospital said the 67 year old had suffered to deep wounds including to his heart. the area in the city of nora, where this veteran politician had been giving an election campaign speech, is now a crime scene. the assassination has shocked japan. a country wag, gun violence is rare. images shaggy. no, this is a dastardly and barbaric oddity to knock out it. what took place in the midst of an election? isn't a bunker, daddy. this is the basis of a democracy. just that you and he's absolutely unforgivable. i would like to use again the harsh words to condemn this act. a she know he does was

shin, so our bay was 1st elected prime minister of japan in 2006, making him at 52. the country's youngest ever premier. oh, it proved short lived. a year later he quit following a string of party scandals. he was also suffering from health problems. but he wasn't gone for long in 2012, he was back promising to revive japan's flagging economy, following years of deflation. i will miss them. he even put his own name on the plan. up in nomics ave was also hawkish on defense, expanding japan's military role after years of pacifism, that proved a controversial policy. and he failed to formally rewrite the country's pacifist constitution. he did though,

bolster japan security alliance with the united states ave was considered a strong leader on the world stage. but in 2020, he again resigned, citing poor health. so to get us politics though, was always in his blood right up until the end. from all we cannot bring in a jealous ali maroni or in tokyo, are you truly shocking dresser for shins abi herb, what more can you tell us? hi indeed, this is a very shocking and sad news. i could say the shock and disbelief has taken japan. the country where the gun rules are very sick and the nation or even shooting are very rare in japan last year. maybe only a handful of shooting happened in japan, only one was killed as

a result. so we have the fascination which the prime minister described as a war barry and it has shocked one in japan early in just before noon today. about $1130.00, the prime minute there for 5 minutes there she was shot at it and went there in japan. norah, he was there campaigning for the election that is going to happen in the house, the senate in the upper house in on sunday. and he was there to actually influential figure in the l. d. p. the democratic party official. you will support a candidate. there was while he was making each there on the road, be not a big crowd actually, maybe about 50 or a 100 people. were there listening. he was approached by a man a 40 year old man from behind,

and he was shocked why we did and there was a very large black smoke in the video that very late are uploaded on social media and you collapse and take him to hospital. now, the suspect has already been arrested. what do we know about him? jesse? i am a gummy it. we know that he's name is 10. am a gummy he's 41 year old and he's a former member of the married time, self defense for defense forces, according to government sources. we don't know much about his intentions, but he did admitted the charges and he said that he wanted to kill a zone. and indeed he succeeded. now already left office 2 years ago. or why was he on the campaign trail and what's his role or what was his role in current japanese politics?

he, he resigned in 2020, as you said, but he was still an influential figure in the liberal democratic party, which is the ruling party. so he was there in supporting a candidate of his own party elections. that is going to happen in 2 days. of course the elections will be affected by the shocking news of his death. he's assassination. but so far we don't. we don't have any news of any postponement of the election, but he was there to campaign and in the last hours of his life, actually he was still working for his party and doing what he was very famous like politics, ali neuron in tokyo for us. thank you very much. thank you very much. no rush, us president vladimir putin as wanted moscow's offensive in ukraine,

has barely begun. he also accused the west of fueling the war and said that its efforts to defeat him would bring tragedy to ukraine. he was speaking to parliamentary leaders, his a, some of what he had to say to renew my solution. we're hearing that they want to defeat us, napoleon on the battlefield. what can i say? we discussed with let them try. museum though we have often heard the wes wants us to fight it until the last ukrainian it the threats a tragedy, the ukrainian people, oklahoma, but it looks like it's heading in that direction. no, she doesn't. 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 sledging year. in would its name to the asco, straight to the w, corresponded make spy, so standing by

a key for us make our pollutants remarks being received in ukraine? again, the only official reaction we have is from an adviser to president lensky. so far, who went? took prudent statement about western powers orchestrating it all and said, look, western powers aren't present in ukraine. the only people who are present a russian soldiers. but i talked to ordinary ukrainians who come to this monument of destroyed russian tanks and artillery vehicles in front of the saint michael's monastery. and they told me one man saying this is a message for the russian people so that people think goodness, still strong. and it's a message for the western countries to keep their hands off of ukraine. a woman i spoke to said it was diabolical. and that putin was essentially satan and a young man that i spoke to said that all that back kind of statement can do. and then from the kremlin, is to steal the resolve of the ukrainian troops to the front line. i stay with us, we want to look at what's happening elsewhere in the country. vladimir putin forces now dominate in eastern and southern cities in ukraine,

such as have san back in june, the occupying administration announced a referendum on joining russia. but when this will take place is still unclear. many hassan residents won't be around to vote tens of thousands. i believe to have left for ukrainian control territory since russia has seized the city. reporting on the ground has become all but impossible for independent journalists. the w's new comedy spoke with 2 locals about life on the occupation. and at 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 was. ready in 95, for as i was a little boy, you know, a red flag hanging and 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 the right mountain. now these people are not able to get the money that they have on there comes a little elder. ready people are trying to get in there. awesome. so boston 1000 rule is a b q to get there. so i think that they give this a rommel 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. so it'll find 80 and on and before it's a fully miller 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 till the 3rd person is missing. when the russians came on, we were expecting things would be as bad as in mary, you, paul, messed up. no, we were scared to even look up the window. it was sheer panic because of the year to damage the fact that we can leave the house and buy food. and we seems like a miracle. unluckily or is it also 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 with only my parents and my grandma that are keeping me here for now. i was sure did the gradients delivery. the question is how and when,

and we got an idea that it to become a marathon rather than a spin. hey connelly reporting them, we can all go back to keith. we're next spices standing by carson is now fully controlled by russian forces off the road for months, but ukrainian defenders apparently advancing on the city. what more do you know what they have been moving in slowly, i think taken care to not had civilian targets when the user artillery are within 2017 kilometers some character on city itself. now that the importance of that is the russians can't really fight on 2 fronts. gearhart is, you know, up and, you know, lou hands can do nets, provinces. there's been a lot of fighting going on. now it's all under netscape and that's where the next russian offense offensive is expected. but it's, it's a big stretch for them to be fighting on both fronts of the point of ukrainians.

fighting down near harrison is basically to make life more difficult for the russians. and just one last thing, there is an underground or a partisan movement as well within the region. blowing up train tracks, blowing up train bridge is going to crimea, and blowing up the rails that carry, for instance, and ammunition car tearing, howitzer shells. so the really trying to target the russians behind the lines and from ukrainian territories. well, now president lindsey recently hailed of the arrival of western weapons at that precision. all these weapons starting to make a difference. yeah, they are, you know, i mean, he said so himself, and there's been a lot of, you know, reporting from the field, particularly with american television stations. i think so that, you know, president biden can show that the help is being affected with these high mars unit, these mobile, right rocket launchers. now number 9, that's what we're getting as the official figure. and they're accurate to within a meter. and the russian rockets are accurate to within 500 meters as are the

ukranian rockets that have been used before. so that means the ukrainians can now pinpoint a weapons depot. that's what they're going out mainly. and, you know, really strike the russians ability to engage in those massive artillery barrage, which is pretty much which is pretty much been their strategy so far because they didn't, they lack the manpower to hold on to cities and towns without reconstituting their heart of responded. nic spicer, inky. of course. thank you, nick. let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. the contest to replace british prime minister boris johnson is underway after his resignation as lead of the conservative party. he agreed to step down after almost 60 and peas, quit his government, following a string of political scandals. johnson said he will remain as prime minister until the party 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. derek chauvinists already serving

a separate 22 year sentence for killing floyd 4 to 6 year old black man in 2020 flawed, died after job show been, kneeled on his neck for over 9 minutes. for ministers of the g. 20 developed and emerging economies are gathering in bali indonesia against a backdrop of the war in ukraine. and, and it's an international food and energy crisis. in these is foreign minister urged an end to the war in ukraine. tensions have been running high at the meeting with some of the fists critics of moscow's invasion, confronting russia's top diplomat as russian foreign minister say, a lover of arrived in body for the talks. he was met by an angry shops. western officials said this g 20 meeting for ministers would be anything but business as usual. let's get more from our chief international affairs editor

richard walker, which is for melissa love, rav walked out of closed door talks after germany is foreign minister on a babble, criticized rushes. invasion of your current, it gives an indication of how far the sides are apart. yeah, i mean, it was a lot of curiosity, how this meeting would go gay. harvey, this is the 1st meeting of this kind of level of the level of foreign ministers where these kind of 2 sides of the russians and the west have really encountered each other since the war began. as you said, to be western leaders, kate went into the meeting saying there must be no business as usual. so they wouldn't take part in a family photo. they wouldn't take part in any sort of receptions or most of the social sort of side events around the tools. but germany form is alina babble, for instance, making the case that it's right to attend, that they shouldn't boycott because they didn't want to leave this international stage completely. so the russian side,

but what ended up happening was the last off was able to make his speech. and he walked out. during an alina bab book speech, he also ended up dodging. also, ukraine's to be tricky labor who was, who was joining virtually over the internet. and you so dodged attorney blinking speech. so in effect, leverage was able to get his say and was not in a position where he had to listen to those critics. and this became a bit of a microcosm and he's gulf that we are seeing now between the western russia, but not just russia. also. we've seen china was increasingly standing by russia side and in the run up to this g 20 meeting, a q. think the united states and nato of destabilizing the well, i just want to bring in a quick somebody from news from retina, my sooty, let's just have a quick some. multilateralism is also the only way to coordinate effectively

against the global challenges. therefore, let's try to do our best and will the latter allison will only deliver if there is trust among us. where to be idea of multilateralism is being strongly promoted to what's its appeal for that part of the world? well, yeah, i mean, almost any country would probably sign up to, to what the indonesian per foreign minister just said that this, this belief in multilateralism. but as we see in the context of this she 20 meeting, there's been very little that has actually been able to be agreed because these divisions are so great and multilateralism and this kind of message you do hear from other countries in asia, for instance, i was recently, reporting in india in india also like indonesia really wants to be able to kind of maintain links with all countries. and that there's a, there's a real concern in that region. but in other parts of the world to that,

the world is kind of drifting or maybe has already entered into a new sort of cold war. where you have these polarized camps. you have the west on one side, you have russia and china, the other side. and countries that would prefer to be able to keep relations with both of all of those countries. suddenly confronted with a question ok, who side iraq, you, one of the countries like indonesia, countries like india, many other countries in the region. that's a very difficult question to answer because they have important, for instance, defense ties with russia to have economic ties with the worst. they also have concerns about the rise of china, which makes matters even more complicated. so really quite a heartfelt plea there, i think from the indonesians not to allow this idea of multilateralism to break down for the well to just tip completely into a bifurcated situation on to national faster, richer walker. thank you. richard. germany has approved the applications of

sweden and finland to join nato. a short while ago members of the bonus stock ratified the accession of germany's northern allies with a vast majority. much to the delight of the 2 representatives of the 2 countries were watching from the gallery, decades of neutrality, sweden and finland moved to join the western defense alliance, in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. the ratification requires unanimous approval by all 30 current natal member states of more on this that spring in our political corresponding nina has a standing by at the bundy star where that vote took place recently. that was quite fast by german standards, wasn't it? you know, yeah, it was indeed i had prior to the vote heard from the members of parliament here that germany had intended to become the 1st country to ratify. but then countries like estonia and canada just were a bit faster than germany, but never. nevertheless,

the signal coming out of germany to day is very clear. it is firmly supporting the idea of finland and sweden joining nato. and there is a broad majority here in parliament. the draft law was prepared with the help of the opposition conservatives, for example. so they all voted in favor. and of course, the idea is that in finland and nato are of course, very, very strong and reliable, trusted partners for germany and have been for decades. and so there can be no doubt that there and joining nato would be a benefit to the alliance in terms of common values. it's her trend, economic strength, et cetera. it would also not just enhance finland and sweden, security in light of potential aggression coming from russia. but it would also strengthen the alliance as a whole. and that, of course, ultimately would also benefit germany. that is the thought that many people here have. and we saw are the representatives from finland and sweden who attended the

vote. and i caught up with the ambassador of finland afterwards and asked her for a reaction. this is a truly history called b. it's not her overly acting. ah, we are really great through the germany being one of the 1st nato allies who is getting through the amplification process. so it's great to be here today. nevertheless, it is expected, or it is to be feared that the ratification process as a whole might dry gone for a couple of months because of course, every need to member all of the 30 and members have the right to veto. how worried are you that a country like turkey might use this process to push through their own interests? no, we are not that are worried. it's a fact. that's a procedures in different ne to members are different. and of course we have count did already on that, that he may take a while. but if it does take a while, it means that you're still not fully protected,

that you're not full fledged members. germany is one of the countries that has issued security guarantees. is that enough? it is enough. our 1st the fall recount, of course, on our own capabilities. but we upgrade for, for so many nato allies who have already asked. they did that there will be an assurances that they will stand by us. now of course it is a historic decision. finland has for a very long time, been a neutral country. how difficult was it for your country to actually take this step? it was quite clear after the o war by started by our so ah, not data in february that there was a fundamental change of our security environment. we made an analysis under which our support of the population, almost 80 percent of the fins are now in favor of membership. it was an easy deceased and actually so

a pleased finish ambassador there. does that all mean now that sweden fin than will be nato members? in no time well, no, it doesn't because it has to be ratified unanimously by or 30 nato members. and a turkey had tried to block finland and as readin joining nato, it then did give up its resistance as so the process is underway, but still it has to officially ratify. and there is a worry here that says, because turkey has already issued some demands in return for ratification, that they just might add, try and hijack that process so that they can push through their own interest. so we'll just have to see how that plays out. but of course, in the mean time of finland and sweden do have the guarantees from a countries like the united kingdom, like the united states, but also germany, that if something should happen,

those countries would be there to defend them. our political correspondent nozzler there. thank you, mina. he was seen dw news. he is a reminder of our top story from a japanese prime minister since obey has been assassinated. he was short while giving a speech at a campaign. events medic say, ave bled to death after sustaining wounds to his heart. the suspect is a former member of japan's navy and was arrested at the c. that's it for now from me and the news team up next to the point of political god office in berlin. ah ah,

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