michael penn. thank you very much indeed. taking the time to join us. thank you. thank you. still to come this ha ha, a wave of anger and argentina as thousands protests against the government's economic policies in, but his diaries, he can replace sparse. johnson, several senior contempt, fancy politicians launch their bids. become you case, you prime minister. ah, however, the last couple of days we have seen some record july, warmth for northern parts of new zealand temperatures getting up into the low twenty's in one or 2 spots. that'll change over the next couple of days. mary of low pressure notting, its way in across the tasman through the ditch, easing over to was news in it. ahead of that. what is lottie far to drive for much of australia, we have got a weather system which will bring some cloud and rain into western australia to go one through sunday, slides across other parts of w. a. grassy makes its way through the byte and it will push further. east was afraid there will be a few showers into sydney on sunday. we don't want to see that, but i'm afraid they will

let's bring in michael penn, who is the president of the she gets her news agency, which is an independent musicians. he joins us now live from tokyo. good to have you with us, michael. your thoughts then on the death of the former prime minister? sions. obey. after these shocking scenes where he was shot earlier today. yeah, well i, so i don't think it's any exaggeration to say that this is a history changing kind of event for japan. ob a is not just some former prime minister, but he is even was until he just died. the 2nd most powerful man in japan, 2nd only to the prime minister for me. ok, shita. he was the head of the largest faction within the ruling party. he was very aggressive and outspoken on sort of conservative right wing military issues. and he was pushing the prime minister very strongly to adopt his policies. so this is and it was not totally out of out of the range of possibilities that are they may have returned again as a future prime minister. although that was not likely. that was not so totally off the table either. so this is huge. why would anyone, though, have want

so let's bring in michael penn. he's the owner of the shin, get soon use agency. he joins us. so last guy from tokyo, michael, you are with us. yesterday morning when we broke this story. i mean this assassination was clearly a huge security failure. what would be the priority now for investigators trying to understand this killing? well, we do know that the national police agency has launched an investigation of, of the event to try to see if the local team had made any mistakes in the way that they had conducted themselves in and trying to protect mr. robin. but so i think that's more generally speaking, you know, although they may have failed to spot the person who came up with his home a gun. generally speaking, it is not the case that in japan, high security is all around at all times. while there are a lot of police here, there that you know, there are a lot more engaged with the community than they are necessarily and expecting to, to be dealing with violent crime. so, you know, japan is kind of a much more relaxed society. i would say in this respect than most other cou

so michael penn is the owner. the shin gets to news agency and has more now or the investigation into others killing. we do know that the national police agency has launched an investigation of, of the events to try to see if the local team had made any mistakes in the way that they had conducted themselves in and trying to protect mr. ave. but i think that's more generally speaking, you know, although they may have failed to spot the person who came up with his home a gun. generally speaking, it is not the case that in japan, high security is all around at all times. while there are a lot of police here, there that you know, there are a lot more engaged with the community than they are necessarily and expecting to, to be dealing with violent crime. so, you know, japan is kind of a much more relaxed society. i would say in this respect than most other countries, major countries around the world. so it's not exactly such a surprise that somebody could walk up to a politician of ave stature and to, to kill them, to

ok, michael penn from the shing get seen news agency. thank you for your insights here today. thank you. well palmer, he co, tony googe. he was a special advisor and former speech right. a fortune that he says they will be remembered as a compassionate leader. personally, he is warm and the friendship once forge to last eternally, i'm not exaggerating. he remembers people once met, he wouldn't forget doubts his personal charm and he has maintained his deep love with his wife. who is morning very much deeply. i would imagine today you can tell by looking at where japan is. japan is a neighbor to russia, north korea, china, none of which has ever implemented anything that came to democracy. each one of which is nuclear. and when it comes to china, it is growing as we discuss like this today. and so japan must strengthen its national security. but you can't do anything alone. bice, by by yourself, which is why she's a law bear. met a huge number of flooring lead us developed close ties with people from obama, from and biden. mae johnson, you name it without him in japan could not

michael penn from the should get so nice actually. thanks joining us from take care . thank you. british olympic champion. no fara has reveal that he was a victim of child trafficking. for says he was smuggled into the united kingdom from job booty as a 9 year old and falls to work as a domestic servant. there fleet says that he was given the name mohammad farrah by a woman who took him from his family. he says his real name is his saying of the us president joe biden says that he's determined to ban assault weapons that are often used in mass shootings across the country. he said the us is a wash with weapons of war, while speaking, as a wise husband to celebrate new bipartisan law, meant to reduce done violence. the legislation incrementally toughened the requirements for young people to buy guns, while denying firearms to domestic abuse is the high number of my shootings in the us. this year has prompted several states including new jersey to bring in new restrictive gun laws. they accuse the federal government and acting too slowly. gabriel is under has more from j

now michael, penn is the president of a sion get soon news agency. he says the former prime minister is in critical condition. what we know is that the former prime minister was standing along the side of a road in the city of nora, which is one of the ancient capital of japan. now a regional city and giving a speech and a man approached him from behind, apparently shot at him 3 times hitting, at least once, the prime minister went down. he's his condition is said to be that he's unconscious and that he's in cardiac arrest. which means that he's either very seriously wounded or possibly he has died, but haven't beneficially called the son. he was campaigning on behalf of the current prime minister for me. ok, shita anders. it's basically a national campaign season right now in japan. so he was out there like many other politicians sort of just giving his speeches and trying to bring out the voters. apparently he was wearing a t shirt. like i said, he approached the former prime minister from behind the photographs and video makes pretty clear that he

michael, good to talk to you, michael penn, _ politics. ng a speech. emmanuel macron says that france expresses its full solidarity with japan after the killing of the formerjapanese prime minister, shinzo abe. more reaction coming in. that is by the french foreign affairs ministry. indeed, many world leaders are reacting to the news, including borisjohnson, who took time out from speaking to his new cabinet and trying to move on from events of yesterday to express his sadness at the death of shinzo abe, saying that the uk stands firm with the people of japan and saying that the uk stands firm with the people ofjapan and shinzo saying that the uk stands firm with the people of japan and shinzo abe's family. let's get more now on the latest on british politics, after the prime minister resignation yesterday as leader of the conservative party. he says he wants to stay on as prime minister until a replacement is found. that could be october. there are concerns from teaching unions over the lack of stability at the top of the government. just

geoff: joining us to talk about the role of climate change is michael man, professor of atmospheric science at pennversity and author of the new climate war. good to have you with those. we have record heat from coast-to-coast, drought in the south and the west, pervasive wildfires has this map makes clear. does all of this mean climate change is happening faster than expected? >> thank you. good to be with you. it's unfortunate we are always talking about these sorts of damaging extreme weather events. there are some impacts of climate change that are playing out faster and with a greater magnitude than we predicted just a decade ago or so. that's true with the collapsef the ice sheets and sea level rise and true with many of these extreme summer weather events we are seeing. one of the ingredients of course , you make the planetarmer, you will see more extreme heat. you dry out the continents in the summer and you get worse drought. you combine the heat and drought and you get the sorts of wildfires we've seen out west in california and throughout the restaurant united states in recent years -- w

. >> for more we're joined by michael mann the distinguished professor of atmospheric science at penn state university and author of "the new climate war." we were supposed to have someone on the ground reporting actually on this, and we're not able to get them out of there. look, michael, a week doesn't go by now when there isn't a devastating example of the deadly power of a changing climate. it goes beyond just in the last 24 hours, what we've seen in kentucky last night, the famed las vegas strip. it looked like a river. there was a rare thunderstorm that triggered flash flooding. is the impact of climate change escalating really quickly now, or does it just feel that way? >> yeah, i'd like to say it's good to be with you, but frankly we almost never have good news to talk about. and here we're given yet another reminder that the climate crisis is deadly. we're seeing the loss of human lives as a result of the amplification of these devastating extreme weather events, the heat waves, we've been dealing with this summer in the midsection of this country, on the east coast of the co

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