i am priya david clemens. we woke up this morning to the shocking news of the assassination of the former prime minister, prime minister kqed.org/newsroom abe. he led the country for about 10 years and over the course of josh and joining us not to discuss the prime minister is michael oslo and. michael, thank you, for joining us. >> thank you, for having me. >> what was your first thought when hearing about the assassination. >> like everyone, shock. gun crime and murder in general is very rare in japan. there has not been an assassination of a leading politician since 1960 so this is not something that you really even think about so, terrible shock of the fact that this happened. and many o work on japan and asia issues, i did meet him a number of times in washington, d.c. as well as in tokyo. who was a very genuine person and with a sense of being interested in talking with people. he was interested in ideas and wanted to interact. it was a sense of personal shock and then finally, a great sense of shock ove

i am priya david clemens. it has been a little more than a month since the progressive district attorney was recalled from office. now, san francisco has a new district attorney. brooke begins. she is a prosecutor that worked for da putin. she became the lead spokesperson of the effort to recall her former boss. last week mayor london that read tapped her to take the job herself. da jenkins, welcome to the show. specks thank you. >> you are one week into this and you have spent the day putting your house in order. you are in the process of bringing new people in and you have fired more than a dozen people as well. what are you hoping to accomplish with the changes? >> i want to bring in a new management team with prosecution experience. i announce three new members of the team that comprise about 50 years of prosecutorial experience and i think that will be critical moving forward with my promise to the public that accountability will be restored to the justice system in san francisco and that we will be the b

. >> i am priya david clemens and join me on kqed newsroom where we explore the state of our state. or on the pbs up. >>> tonight on kqed newsroom, newly minted district attorney brooke jenkins shares her plans for a safer san francisco. and assembly member phil tang tells us about the gun legislation he authored. >>> we take a look at the wildfire threat in california and other top stories in the golden state. also, a close up view of those indelible, incredible images from the james webb space telescope is this week's something beautiful. coming to you from kqed headquarters in san francisco this friday