[000:00:00;00] ah, subscriber to d w documentary on youtube. with this is d w y from by lay in japan. small a prime minister. sions obeyed, dies after being shot during a political robbie was giving a speech ahead of this weekend's parliamentary elections. medic say he bled to

death after sustaining injuries to his hot. we'll bring the latest from tokyo. also on the program brushes, vladimir putin warms that the warning ukraine's only just getting started as he's foreign minister. so gay laughter off a lot, she's out rushes. critics saying there's no point in talking about the peace. ah, i'm feel gale a welcome to the program. japan's former prime minister since her arbor has died after being shot at a political ro here had of the weekends parliamentary elections. police say a 41 year old man has been arrested. mister ave was the country's longest serving premier and was well known for his strong economic and defense policies. is killing how shocked the country at japan is a gun nation where fire arms are 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 nearby, 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. the assassination has shocked japan. a country wag, gun violence is rare, images shaggy. no, this is a dastardly sam. barbaric oddity. to knock out it took place in the midst of an election, isn't a bunker, daddy. this is the basis of a democracy, j. u and his up slowly unforgivable things. i would like to use again, the harshest words you to condemn this act. a, you know, he does most chin so ave 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 his string of pont. he 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. ave know, makes me 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 are bay was considered a strong leader on the world stage. but in 2020, he again resigned, citing poor health study yet of politics though was always in his blood right up until the end i've been speaking with journalist sonia of blush, car in tokyo, and she told me more about the suspect in custody. information is, keeps coming in. we know that he's 41 of from nora. he went to school, there has lived there in the past 10 years. at least. he was a former member of the japanese self defense force and trained there for a couple of years. also learned how to use weapons which probably was useful now for enacting his plan, which apparently had in his head at least as 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, alma yes, they are because a gun owning a gun is very difficult in japan. there are a lot of background check psychological champs and checks the neighbors get asked and all these things. and so owning a gun, unless 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 today they canceled their events, but tomorrow they want to go back campaigning because they say we want to want to bow and to this sort of 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, the master. i would even say, you know, behind the scenes and the current prime minister from your policy, you see that was really trying to kind of emerge from under obvious shadow with these elections. ok,

thank you for san antonio. bhaskar in tokyo. there is a quick look. it's of all stores making news around the world, the contest to replace britton's prime ministers under way after bars. johnson and i'm sees 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 selects a new leader. and gold. as former president at jer say add water to santos has died at the age of $79.00. once an independence fighter he ruled the oil rich central african nation for almost 40 years. is tenure was marked by civil war and rampant corruption. de santos died in barcelona, where he was being treated to following a prolonged ellis foreign ministers from b g 20 are developed and the voting economists are meeting in indonesia. the summits been overshadowed by the war and ukraine and an international food and

energy crisis by russian foreign minister. so gay laughter of walked out of the room and with fierce criticism from western nations. german parliament has approve the applications of sweden and finland to join the nato alliance. after decades of neutrality, the 2 countries are moved to join nato in response to russia's invasion of cray ratification will require unanimous approval by all 30 current nato states. vladimir putin has warned that his country's offensive in ukraine has barely begun . is also accused the west of fueling, the war declaring that western efforts to defeat him would bring tragedy to ukraine . the russian president was addressing parliamentary leaders to renew my solution. we are 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 wes wants us to fight it until the last ukrainian it that there it's a tragedy. the ukrainian people look, behold,

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. but 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. in would they don't, he correspondent expire for is in the ukrainian capital. he told me how those comments have been received. with some indifference, i would say from official them, we only have an advisor to president zalinski saying that western powers 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 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 sit,

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 as since 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. phil, 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. as b, w correspondent, expire for. and keith. meanwhile, rushes taking control of the ukrainian city of hassan's last month, the occupying and been straighten announced plans to hold a referendum on joining russia, though no date has been specified. but many of the cities residents of won't be around to vote, as tens of thousands of believe to have left since the city was captured. it's all but impossible for independent west and journalist to get there. so d, w correspondent, nick connelly made contact with 2 of the cities residents, and they told him about life and occupation. a new system at the beginning, we are thought the occupation would be over in a week. really. it was only a few months in that we finally understood that the russians were here to stay. it looks very similar to what it. ready was in 19, maybe 5 into 4 as i was a little will year and on

a red flag her haney and those look very saw your plane with all my friends have left with the other generation is gone. only the pensioners have stayed here. there's so many people in need of a mountain of snow. these people are not able to get the money that they have on their guns. a lot of beauty, elder people are trying to get in there. awesome. so boston 1000 rule did this a b q to get there. so i think build a new system and it wasn't her uncle rommel by conditional given the rest. 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. so why and daily and on, and before it got fully milder vehicles by in fact, so 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 see on facebook till in 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. normally we were scared to even look up the window. it was sheer panic because her ears damaged the fact that we can leave the house and buy food. and we seems like a miracle, alexis, or is also a baby girl, was i always tried to just ish, if the russians are shooting or, or the ukrainians covering russians was, it was showing 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 the idea it to become a marathon rather than a spin. this is date of the news coming up. a news asia will have more on the legacy of former japanese. prime minister actions are about who's died after being shot while campaigning and a look at. ty, one's latest addition to its homegrown defense capabilities. to read, read will have those stories and more in just a moment. that's d, w, use asia and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news. i've been with