mr kishida was about to give a speech in support of a local candidate of his ruling party the ldp.t pm kishida made a speech in another location. the attack comes ahead of nationwide local elections and by—elections for vacated seats injapan�*s lower house. our correspondent shaimaa khalil in tokyo has the latest. very dramatic scenes coming this morning from wakayama in western japan. chaos among the crowd as a young man is being tackled and then pinned to the ground by security personnel. and then a screaming crowd scrambling to leave the scene as a loud explosion is heard, and then smoke fills the air. the man is then being taken away from the scene. the prime minister is ta ken to safety. we heard from one witness who said she was among the crowd of about 100 people. she saw something being thrown from the back. she felt quite uneasy, she ran away with her children, and then she said that she felt stunned, the loud noise made her daughter cry. we understand that the prime minister, fumio kishida, was about to give a speech after visiting a port in that area in support of the lo

of zhirinovsky, they continue the work of their mentor, the party, which was originally called the ldps, later the ldpr vladimir zhirinovsky created from scratch . i think no other generation call on russian politicians for how it is necessary to work. uh, without any limit, giving herself to people serving her future. this is exactly what helps us now without him. becoming stronger for us he is alive, he is alive, his brilliant idea, his approaches, which at this difficult time for russia will help us win, and the daughter of the founder of the liberal democratic party noted helping people was the main goal. father is his destiny. i am very proud that this particular person, an outstanding statesman of russia vladimir volfovich zhirinovsky is my father. eternal blessed memory to him. sleep well, dad is a brilliant analytical mind of knowledge of history, much of what he predicted once came true. i would like the twenty-second year to be a year of peace, but i love the truth for 75 years, i speak the truth. it will be a year and peaceful , nato has no other plans than waging war and the

to pass a plenary session of the lower house in early may before going to the upper house where the ldp and its partners also hold a majority. >>> turning to sudan fierce fighting continues even after the warring parties agreed to extend their cease-fire for an additional 72 hours starting friday. the country's military and the paramilitary rapid support forces both announced the extension ahead of the deadline to end their previous truce, but clashes were reported even during the truce in the capital khartoum and the western state. sudan's health authorities say more than 500 people have been killed since the violence erupted on april 15th. a growing number of people are fleeing sudan to nearby countries despite the cease-fire. egypt said on thursday that it fusa facilitated the crossing of more than 16,000 people from sudan. the u.n. immigration agency says more than 20,000 people have fled west to chad. many of them are in dire need of basic humanitarian aid such as food and water. meanwhile on friday a chartered plane took off from djibouti to ejae evacuate nearly 50 japanese nation

chairman of the ldp, do not copy anything. this time you have your white. the way, and secondly, we have introduced unique elements of the political system of the country that will not allow us parties and any other institutions to destabilize the situation in the country, this and the entire belarusian assembly is the electoral code. this and the law on civil society is a set of documents, so in my opinion. we are going the right way and, uh, we are giving people and democracy and peoples the power in our belarusian understanding. today, probably, the congress will show a lot, for example, program documents. e, at this stage , there is a re-registration of political parties. uh, we're reviewing our ranks. e their organizational structures in the regions in belarus, as i understand it , a political culture should be formed. explain which random people will be excluded from the policy. and here is the situation of the twentieth year. it will not be repeated a priori, so it is worth noting that a unique party system is taking shape in belarus. where are the l

after abe was assassinated, it highlighted ties between the ldp and the unification church. again, although we do not have any information yet on the motive of the suspect, that is one risk raised by analysts. shery: that must be a key security concern, especially as we have this g7 foreign ministers gathering in japan right now. stephen: i think this attack on prime minister kishida underscores the security element to these meetings that are coming from the g7. obviously the foreign ministers starting their gathering in the resort town yesterday. they will be going on today. also early next month you have the finance ministers, and also a week after that the leaders summit of the g7 in hiroshima. it does underscore that security will be atop subject, not just because of ukraine and taiwan, but also now domestically. it is going to tighten things up at these meetings. obviously we are more than a year after the russian invasion of ukraine. we have had subsequently of course a meeting of minds, if you will, between xi jinping and vladimir putin in moscow. that will be on the

i understand that, well, before the so-called pseudo-elections, some are from the ldp and some are ford russia. they have already started fighting among themselves or not. well, actually, that's what i'm talking about uh, in other words, there are some elections, some visits to the polling stations, it doesn’t affect anything. well, that’s why he conducts his propaganda, but no, it won’t be like that, this is the russian federation, because they will say so much to the protocol of the final writing and write ah-ah and i can’t do it to understand, because from her point of view, russia is a fucking state in a rut , and there is no way that there can be such a thing, but now it cannot be completely controlled by the kremlin, the party and the puppet movement, and they take the height of the percentage as much as is necessary to get the right people from the cream for that when in the list, i just don't understand it, can't understand it in my every thank you, mr. serhiy, serhiy lushchenko, on a direct call from zaporizhia, we had, well, another sad news from zaporizhia