[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah this is the w news. why from berlin? japan small, the prime minister shouldn't. so a dies after being shot during a political rally was giving a speech ahead of this weekend's parliamentary elections. medic say he bled to

death after sustaining industries hot bringing the light is from tokyo. also on the program brushes, vladimir putin warrants of the war, and ukraine is only just getting started, as is foreign minister. so gay laughter of lashes out rushes. critics saying there's no point in talking about peace. i'm the w here about life under occupation from 2 people living in the russian held the city of have some why they chose not to leave. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. to pants former prime minister sions, or other has died after being shot at a political rally ahead of the weekends parliamentary elections. please say a 41 year old man has been arrested. as the ave was the country's longest serving premier and was well known for his strong economic and defense policies is killing, has shocked japan, a country where firearms

a strictly regulated and political violence is rare. oh, the moment shin, so are they? we shot twice, a suspect man handled to the ground. what appears to be a weapon. lying on the road near by people ran to the age of japan's former prime minister as he lay seriously wounded. he was quickly transferred to a helicopter and flown to a hospital. at this point, his condition was described as critical, but doctors were unable to save him. mister shins obey was taken into emergency care at 20 past 12. he was in a state of cardiac arrest. he was given intensive care,

but unfortunately he passed away to day, but 3 minutes past 5. when he arrived, he had gunshot wounds on 2 parts of his body and was in a state of cardiac arrest, probably induced by damage to hearts unto the altar. is the area in the city of nora, where this veteran politician had been giving an election campaign speech is now a crime scene, was the assassination has shocked japan. a country where gun violence is rare, images, shaggy, nor this is a dastardly sam, barbaric oddity to knock out it when that took place in the midst of an election isn't a bunker dowdy? this is the basis of a democracy to say and is absolutely unforgivable. i would like to

use again, the harshest words to condemn this act. you know, he does most shin. so our bay was 1st elected prime minister of japan in 2006, making him at 52 the country, his 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. abilene mixed there, 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 was get more from journalist us on her blush, her in tokyo. ah, welcome back. sonya, we're learning more about the suspect in custody. yes, yes sir. information is keeps coming in. oh, we know that he's 41 of from nora. he went to school, there has lived there in the past 10 years, at least. and he was a former member of the japanese self defense force and are trained there for

a couple of years. also learned how to use weapons which probably was useful now for am in acting his plan, which apparently had in his head at least a since spring. so he said he's been preparing this since spring. and he did this. he said to police because he was against an organization that he thought of. it was a member of. right. and despite this shootings are rare in japan, army yes, they are because a gun owning a gun is very difficult to pander. a lot of background check psychological champs and checks of the neighbors get asked and all these things. and so owning a gun unless it's, it's a hunting gun, is very different than even that is tricky. and they're still trying to find out whether he was actually in possession of such a hunting license might. so we have this extraordinary event resulting in the death of a significant,

a figure in japanese society. our people reacting people are very shocked. they say they can't believe it, or they're also very angry. they say, you know, this is an attack on democracy. how can this be? why, why would someone do something like this? and politicians are today, they cancel their events, but tomorrow they want to go back here campaigning because they say we want to want to bow and to this song, violence on the will, mr. mr. are by step down as, as prime minister, 2 years ago, he was campaigning for parliamentary elections that this weekend. so what has been his role in politics since then? he's been the person that's been pulling the strings behind the scenes. i mean, he did step down 2 years ago and did take a short break, but after that, he's been the head of a very powerful faction within the liberal democratic party. and he still was

really the master. i would even say, you know, behind the scenes and the current prime minister could you see that was really trying to kind of emerge from under obvious shadow with these elections. ok, thank you for san antonio blaster in tokyo. thought of the war in ukraine and vladimir putin has warned that his country's offensive has barely begun. his also accused the west of fueling, the war declaring that western efforts to defeat him would bring tragedy to ukraine . russian president was addressing parliamentary leaders. certainly, most lucian, we're hearing that they want to defeat us up. will you on the battlefield? what can i say is good with let them try mosier more. we have often heard the west wants us to fight it until the last ukrainian it that there, it's a tragedy that the ukrainian people would, but 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. 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 without him sledging year. well, they've only corresponded mix. spicer is in the ukranian capital. he told me a how those comments from president putin had been received with some indifference, i would say from official them we only have an advisor to president zalinski saying that western powers, which he says are at work in ukraine are not present in the country. only russian soldiers are. i talked to a bunch of people on the streets to day. i one man said look, we know what potent is doing. this is a message to his people 1st and foremost to so that he is powerful. he is in charge . and a message to the west, hands off ukraine, a woman i spoke to said that his cit, what he had to say was diabolical and said he was essentially satan and

a young man of draft age said to me, all that back kind of common can do is steal the resolve of ukrainian fighters on the front line in the fighting itself. russia appears to have a east off. it's don't bass offensive, a sense it took lucy chance a why is that? well the russian high command has said that it's marked this undertaking operational pause. and i think the reason why is because they have to reconstitute their, their attack tactical baton battle groups. they were decimated in large part in the attempt to take this city at the start of the war fill. as you recall, what they've been doing for the, you know, land that they've been able to conquer, is basically unleashing huge artillery barrage is. and then moving in to a scorched earth city of bubble and which the ukrainians have evacuated for tactical reasons for their not really winning person, you know, hand to hand street by street combat they need to get their troops reorganized to

fighting units. ok, thanks for that. mixed with what we're going to take a look at, what's happening elsewhere, a nuclear and then we'll come back to a russian forces now dominates. are the countries eastern and southern cities back in june, the occupying administration in her son announced that there would be a referendum on joining russia, or no date has been announced when he residents won't be around to vote tens of thousands of believe to have left for ukrainian control territories since the city fell, since it's all but impossible for independent western journalist to report from their d. w. 's. nick commonly got in touch with 2 locals, who told him about life and occupation. yes, 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 it. ready was a 54 as i was a little boy,

you know a red flag a. ready look very saw your lazy, all my friends have left. the other generation is gone. only the pensioners have stayed. yeah. 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 little older people are trying to get the russian over 10000 rouble. did this a b q to get there? so i think that they give this a little and her uncle rommel by condition. there are some i only heard about the plans for a referendum to join russia from the ukranian press. with that no one's talking about it here. oh, wait a little while and daddy and on and before it got fully milder vehicles. but in

fact, there are many places where, where ocoee jewelry dorothy is, 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 of norwood. we were scared to even look up a window. it was sheer panic with either yes or damage. the fact that we can leave the house and buy food more than we seems like a miracle. unluckily or is an order for just a 2nd. baby girl was i always tried to just ish, if directions are short, being 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. the only ones who did the graham's delivery, the question is how and when, and we got a is become a marathon rather than for nick, commonly talking to a couple of residents of her. her son, let's go back to an expired in keith at nick, i guess on has been under full russian control for on 4 months. but you cry and says it's forces are advancing on the city. so what else are you hearing? well, there's what the ukrainian forces are doing. phil, i think what is also interesting is what the partisans are doing to transform the marathon that that man talk about into a shorter race. they've been blowing up railway lines. they've been brought, blowing up trains carrying ammunition, doing all kinds of things to weaken the russian war effort behind the lines. now on the other side of the lies, what the actual ukrainian army is doing is trying to take territory time to take villages,

engaging and shelling without hitting civilian areas and continuing the war effort . not just to prevent russia from getting that land bridge, they want to get all the way across to romania, but also just to put pressure on them in the south in order to divert their resources from lu hats. so they have to fight a 2 front war, which is of course, always difficult. so it's about hair san but it's about the larger war effort as a whole. phil. all right, thank you for that next spice in keith. there was a quick look at some more stories making news around the world who started russia, where moscow's chief rabbi has quite after 30 years, reportedly over russia's invasion of ukraine. francesco schmidt left the country for israel early this year. russian media. so he left because his contract expired contest to replace britton's prime ministers underway after parish. johnson announced his resignation as leader of the conservative party. he agreed to step down after almost 60 mph quit his government, following

a string of political scandals. mister johnson said he'll remain as prime minister until the party select a new leader. in the united states, a former police officer has been sentenced to nearly 21 years in jail for violating the civil rights of george floyd. that show van's already serving a separate 22 year sentence for killing mr. floyd or 40 secure old black man in 2020. he had died after shoving knelt on his neck from all 9 minutes. a foreign ministers from the g 20 developed and emerging economies gathering on the indonesian island of bali, against a backdrop of rushes warn you crave, and an international food, an energy crisis. indonesia, foreign minister urged an end to the war. entrance of the meeting ran high with some of moscow's fears, his critics confronting russian foreign minister. so gay lover of arriving in bali . mr. oliver was met by shouts from

a german reporter b . w. c. for international edison, richard walker is following that meeting. welcome, richard. we will, we will talk about sir. yeah, russia's a foreign minister walking out of the closed door meeting. the close door talks after germany's foreign minister criticized his country's invasion of ukraine. so we'll hear from german, 4 minister on a bare bark and then get your take. as he was there, said he, the one that the russian administration does not want the united nations being part of the negotiations on the green exports that the russian foreign minister has spent large parts of the meeting, not inside the room and outside the room, underlines the fact that the russian government is currently not willing to talk to the outside get ridge walkers, analynn,

a very barebones call that right. well it certainly is the case. the sag love roth effectively boycotted her speech. he also was not present for the address by mutual co labour, the ukrainian foreign minister who was joining remotely. and he also didn't listen to attorney blinking speech about making a point there. that if you're not in the room, if you're not actually listening to what we're saying, then, then how can we take you seriously. this is having a serious interest in negotiating a level for his party, saying that there's nothing to talk about with the west. because as he put it, the west is trying to support ukraine so much in this war, which is of course very much the case. so i think in terms of, you know, the potential for negotiations to be held over finding an end to this war. i think it's recognizable round at the moment that potential simply isn't there. i mean, this really is being forced out on the battlefield at the moment. but there's this other level to it, which is trying to find a solution to the huge amount,

tens of millions of tons of grain that's been stuck in ukraine that cannot get out of ukrainian ports because because those ports are being blockaded by the russian side. and the russians are saying at the moment that they are willing to hold talks on that. but the suspicion and in fact the accusation from the western side is that, that is not serious. and that the russians are really kind of trying to generate this sort of global food crisis as a way of trying to turn global opinion against the west. penning the blame on the west for this shortage of food around every shouting, nobody listening. but let's hear from indonesia, foreign minister, or written or more sooty, of the start of one of today's sessions. some of the lot of them is also the only way to pardon it effectively against the global challenges. therefore,

let's try to do our best. and we'll deal at rallies and we'll only deliver if there is trust among us. sir richard walker that that's rallying cry for multilateralism is that's come to a particular fear in asia about a return to the cold war yet. that's right. i mean, it's something you don't just hear from indonesia, you have from other countries. you also get the strong sense of that in india. i was just recently a reporting in india where there's a great concern of this idea of the world of fracturing into 2 blogs. accelerated by the war in ukraine with effectively the sort of west in its allies on one side and russia and increasingly that the chinese on the other. and you have countries around asia really don't want to end up being forced to choose who side that they're wrong. and, and you've seen the indonesians, for instance, trying to navigate this in recent weeks. you had a president with out of indonesia, here in germany for the g 7 summit. after that,

he then made trips both to ukraine and to russia to meet the leaderships. they're offering indonesia services, a kind of interlocutor to, to try and make some progress in terms of negotiations. but it is very much a concern among asian countries. that, for instance, may have defense relationships with russia, but also important economic relationships with united states. the another big factor of this being, of course china in asia, which is a great concern to many of the countries in the region. so really kind of almost like a rallying cry, almost like a plaintive plead, worried that that's the way the world is going to throw in into that, into that mixer. before that washington is calling for russia to be excluded from gee 20. and as you've been implying that just tells how much this war is, testing the limits of international forums like g twins, i think particularly it is really straining the g 20 in particular. because of

course, like some of the international organizations that you have, for example, the g 7 is very much, it is countries of like, my, you know, that's, that's the kind of the big industrialized democracies they threw out russia from the g 8 long ago. the g 20 though he's coming to its own it taken on a great deal credibility as, as a much broader based organize, a broader base set of countries much more representative of the world and includes rushing, who's china as well as the united states. western countries in many countries from the global south. so this is really putting to the test whether a, whether an organization like the g, a g 20. whether a grouping like that can really hold up on to this amount of strain on this amount of fracturing. of course, the real test is going to be this november when the g 20 summit is due to take place. now b, m, shore increasing calls for western countries to, to boycott that altogether. the question is,

what's more important to try to kind of show a strong sign of rejection towards russia or to try to be in the room to keep some kind of a conversation internationally going on. thank you for date of your surgery for international editor. no angola, the former president to just say at water da santos has died at the age of 79. at once. an independence fighter the santos ruled the oil rich central african nation . for nearly a 40 years. his tenure was marked by civil war and rampant corruption. he stepped down in september 2017. he died in spain, where he was being treated following a prolonged illness. and sir, get more miss from d. w. africa correspondent, adrian cree shoe joins us from dyess salon and tanza near. welcome address. ah, how much of a controversial figure out was this form? the president will indeed of controversial figure. the son of

a bricklayer rose very fast through the ranks of the liberation movement, became president at a very early age and his supporters and basically they praise him as the architect of peace. because under his watch, the longest civil war in africa ended, and they also praised him for the oil discoveries and the oil wealth that basically came across during his rule as well. and under his watch, angola became the 2nd biggest oil producer on the continental, one of the capital, a very wealthy place. one of the richest cities of the world are under his watch and one of the most expensive ones as well. but on the other hand, of course, you have a lot of criticism, this nepotism, massive human rights abuses. and this is the other side of it, a lot of scientists. and what has been the reaction to his death to the reactions. and so far the government brought out as a statement and they had a very well i would say sad for giving tone in it's because let's talk a little bit about the other side. first of all,

em off eduardo santos. as the site of corruption. they have been massive allegations against him and his family of nepotism. his daughter, isabella santos, became the richest woman under his watch. and she always claims that this was all self made. but now the on the lease that came out in public and 2020 basically showed that it was parts wise that leased liberalism that she got jobs in the state oil company, for example, his son and ended up in it with a jail sentence after it was out of santos left the office am to there's a lot of things happening and this all happened after the new president took over from the same party to our login. so he was the defense minister and they'd wanted a santos and then turned against his former friends or the former president and started investigations under his watch. and things got a little bit sobbing them right. and did a job that had water. so santos was one of africa's longest serving leaders. what

is his legacy likely to be? well, somewhere in between us as, as we have just said it's on the one hand. yes, he had an important role definitely in the liberation movement. but likely, the folk was and, but most people will remember him for, will be these massive human rights abuses, this massive corruption that happened under his watch when you are now in luanda and then the capital of the country. you see the one side of angola, the, the wealthy oil rich, the fancy buildings, the nice beach front where people spend a lot of money to go out and live a good life. and on the other hand, in eyesight you have slums, people living in poverty, they don't have access to, to water to electricity. they're still massive challenges for the country. and in august the next elections will be held. so at the death of the president and the statement that we've seen from the current president now is giving us indication that the reconciliate a return that we're hearing and that the president does not want confrontation at this time. and as of course, rather eyeing support also from the supporters of former president. it was

a santos. okay, thank you for that address, chris this is d w coming up next a news asia with a more on the legacy of former japanese prime minister sions are all by who's died after being shot, while company on the look at, ty, ones latest addition to it's home grown defense capabilities. jared read will have those stories in d. w. use that asia next. i'll be back at the top of the out with with,

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