ah ah ah, here watching d w. news asia coming up to day elections in japan, deliver a super majority to the liberal democrats. as former prime minister sions obeys party, we take a closer look at how his assassination might have turned out voters. and what this means for japan and the rest of asia and entree, longer the presidential palace has become the people's palace as protestors route the president from his home. what's next for the country? ah,

i melissa chan. thanks for joining us. japan's conservative coalition government ramped up its majority in the upper house of parliament in an election on sunday. campaigning took on grim significance after former prime minister sion though abi, japan's longest serving modern leader was gun down on friday in a shocking assassination. japan's governing, liberal democrats score to major victory. and what was the sombre election on sunday celebrations were overshadowed by grief at the assassination of the parties . dominant, politician and chief power brokers. sions obey. there's also uncertainty about what abe's killing means for japan going forward. the final hobbies, hawkish, nationalist views were divisive, particularly his desire to reform japan's us, drafted pacifists constitution to boost defense spending. another key issue was

that of japanese, abducted by north korea in the 19 seventies and 19 eighties. prime minister formula, cachimba pledge to continue working on abbeys. legacy i been with authority no more . you will get see. it took inheriting the legacy of abbe, especially abduction issues and the constitution amendment john, which he put so much of his effort in juggle. i work on challenges that abbe could not solve him, his own nun die neat tutuco and it might us abbe was shot during his speech in support of a local candidate in the western city of nara mourners laid reeds at the sight of the killing, condemned by kinda as an attack on democracy itself. people paid their respects across the country, the shooting shock, japan, a country would strict on laws and were politics are generally peaceful. but it almost, and i never imagined anything like this would happen. although it is, i did it. i'm hoping that by coming here,

my daughters will take an interest in politics and democracy with of them when i final thought. not what i got a u. s. secretary of state antony blinking, visited cuz she does official residence to offer condolences in his time in office premise robbie had more than anyone to elevate. the relationship between the united states in the pan to new heights abby's body has been brought to zoji temple in tokyo, where his funeral will take place on tuesday. japan will bid farewell to a leader who oversaw major changes that will continue to shape the countries politics, economy, and foreign policy for years to come. joining us as kenmore yasenya k h as diplomatic correspondent, welcome to the program. thank you for having me. has abbeys, assassination changed things for his governing party, the liberal democrats, especially given this weekend election results?

no, i think the past that i said is firmly in place, especially after the korean war, japan needs to defend itself. and i think that is really spread across it. now as mentioned in the report, one of our long term goals was to amend japan's pacifist constitution to allow it to become a military power. and he couldn't get that through as prime minister, but it looks like his party with its super majority will be able to now can you talk about that? right, so i've always thought that japan constitution, especially article 9, which we announces the use of force me into central disputes and also prohibits japan to hold any military really held back to secondary country. and he wanted to change the constitution so that you could take responsibility and be a normal country that didn't happen because to change the constitution, you need

a procedures to get through. although the number of seats does allow this to happen. technically, we don't know if this actually will happen, according to opinion polls, the number of people who say they're ok to negotiate or discussing change in the constitution has grown significantly by 72 percent. it's ok to discuss amendment to the constitution 21 percent. there is no need to discuss any changes, but that doesn't automatically mean the trans concentration is going to be changed . now as diplomatic correspond and i'm curious what you think, what kind of an impact this would have if the constitution was changed in terms of the reaction from the rest of asia? well, what delta p is trying to do is change. positive article 9 prohibits

any land or sea military forces and right in the japan has a self defense force that protects the con country. technically, i don't think that's going to cause so much of a ripple effect in the region, right? so are they had a relatively strong and clear vision for japan and its place in the asia pacific. he was hugely influential where we see continued regional leadership from japan and what is japan's thinking and strategy in the asia pacific? so since i have a very strategic logic about how to defend japan, and he understood japan's worst nightmare would to be have 3 front problems, the threat of china, the threat of north korea and the threat of russia. so he very strategic the

attempted diplomacy with russia and reached out to vladimir putin met him over 20 times. and by doing that, he basically eliminated the threat that russia wouldn't be japan. so he could focus on north korea and china and during the trump years, because trump was engaged in north korea, there was a little threat that north korea would attack japan. so basically, i could focus solely on china. the issue now is that because i didn't, administration is basically ignoring those clear threat has emerged again and because of ukraine, the russia threat has emerged again to japan for the 1st time in many decades has a 3 from problem. and there is discussion of doubling the defense budget, but to face 3 threats, some experts say the japan may need to triple it. what is needed, therefore, for the new government, for the government going forward, is to try to eliminate one of those things. can maria,

thank you so much for joining us. thank you very much. ah. after a month sir, sustained protests. sri lankan overran the presidential palace this weekend. casey president got to buy a roger pox or out of his home. at the moment. it is unclear who is running the government and how it will get out of this crisis that has meant a shortage of food and fuel plus crippling debt. if we're now, however protest her celebrate what they hope will be the 1st step towards change for the country picking up rubbish in the garden of the presidential palace. indeed, ill bon dora had taken part in protests for more than 90 days. he was injured so severely during one of them that he's been in a wheelchair ever since was under the given me. i mean,

i did this for my country. what happened to me is irrelevant. we protest it was so long until we finally achieved our goal. and this makes me really happy. i wanted to be happy. i live in america. on saturday, tens of thousands of people filled the streets of cheryl anchors, capital, colombo. they stormed government buildings and the president's palace. bowing to public pressure, most prime minister week remy singer and president go to buy a raj. a boxer announced their resignations like many others in the new bon. dora sees the president as the main culprit for this crisis. he owned a small fabric factory but was forced to close its doors when or to stop coming in . that left his family of 6 without the income they relied on. i them again a month and i meant i'm still living on my savings. i also donated to the protests, but because of the accident, i still had to pay for an operation very, which also cost me a lot of money and we were leading the worries,

fears and anger of the previous months of forgotten, at least for now, the presidential palace is usually sealed off and out of bounds for ordinary people . now it's become a tourist hotspot. thousands come he to see how go to buy a roger pox i lived in luxury in his gym or by the pool. is really unbelievable. read. and in that that particular mission will come to us monday that finally come. and that is what we want that via vetting ha, more than 90 days for this day. so i think this is a very excited isn't all of us. you london, we are very happy and very we are very proud. but even with the president and prime minister gone, the countries problems remain sri lanka is more than 50000000000 euros in debt. many people have lost their jobs, and bally have the money to feed themselves and their families. but i didn't

thought we now expect the country to be ruined by capable people may we know that we have many talented young politicians here. they must now be given a chance and give hope back to the people of shall anchor with them. i thought i did. i love, i didn't believe it in and deal hope that he'll be able to reopen his factory when the crisis has passed. but that's not large, he to be any time soon. marlin ariano guy is a senior editor for the news magazine. him all south asian. he told us more about who's in charge in colombo and the prospects for forming a new government. so right now, since they haven't been any official resignations, the president b. m are still in charge for questions. quotations among the political parties who form the government as well as a petition party. but we haven't, we haven't, we haven't been informed of consensus yet. so it's too much,

it's too much to develop the integration right now in terms of the next government . local news has been reporting that, that are the best for the pm run into some things with the continued entertain the presidency. since the i am a discussion of the law going that also reports that the opposition lead, i just pay my daughter has had a discussion and he's hoping to establish williams, getting the garments made up of the problem. but he still does not come on the majority, but the protest, they have been demanding the recognition of the mass. so if he also the science, we might have a situation where the speed of the polymer will be taking over the actual that's it for monday, we leave you with these pictures out of japan as it continues to more in the killing of its longest serving prime minister until abbey, thank you for watching and graphy tomorrow.

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