the more now on that breaking news here, down to 0, the former japanese prime minister since the lobby has been shot. let s bring in michael pen, is the president of the shin, get sued news agency, which is an independent news agency, joins us lie from the japanese capital. tokyo, michael, good. happy with her. so this news is just breaking. now tell us what you ve been hearing there about the shooting just briefly. ok, well 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 comes in cardiac arrest . which means that he s either very seriously wounded or possibly he has died, but it hasn t been officially called the son. yeah, so just tell us michael a
Good evening. A 14 year old boy has died and a number of others, including two Police Officers, have been injured after a sword attack in east london. Police declared a Critical Incident after they were called to reports that a vehicle had been driven into a house at hainault shortly before seven oclock this morning. A 36 year old man is in custody. Police say the incident is not believed to be targeted or terrorism related. Our special correspondent lucy manning is in hainault for us now. Lucy. A 14yearold boy did not make it to school lucy. A 14yearold boy did not make it to school this lucy. A 14yearold boy did not make it to school this morning, it to school this morning, stabbed by hind the police tape, and his family now suffering the consequences of that sword rampage. The suspect is in custody, in hospital, but he is too injured to be questioned yet but he has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The police here this morning being hailed for the police here this morning being
forces try to retake the last rebel held territory we re live inside syria. hello china struggling to cope with the corona virus outbreak as more people die of the onus it s running out of bed space to accommodate new cases of countries saw a record spike in deaths on wednesday bringing the total to more than 560 more than 28000 people are infected most of them in the epicenter of han and authorities are saying there is a severe shortage of beds and medical supply. and a day after the chinese president xi jinping met and thanked his cambodian counterpart for his support in the fight against the virus there are reports that beijing may delay its biggest political meeting the annual national congress is held every march and that s when top communist party leaders meet with thousands of members to decide on the government s priorities for the year. meanwhile taiwan has banned all international cruises from docking after 10 more cases were confirmed on a quarantine vessel docked
Is live from london also coming up in the program angry scenes in the knesset says Israeli Palestinian politicians disrupt the u. S. Vice president s speech and he announces the American Embassy will move to jerusalem is and is next year. Its offensive in Northern Syria and says russia agreed to the operation. Full football star george where sworn in as light as late as president promising to crack down on corruption crippling his country. So politicians in the United States have reached an agreement to end the federal shutdown which came into effect at midnight on friday night essential Government Services have been closed across the United States for three days senate since from Donald Trumps Republican Party and the opposition democrats have now struck a temporary deal to restart government funding well the shutdown began when both parties failed to agree a budget in a rout over immigration the democrats are unhappy that the republicans are appealing a bill that prevents the childre
Hello im Barbara Starr youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up on the program. Defiance on the streets but in the political sphere the movies towards mediation between spain and catalonia over secession huge crowds greet the palestinian Prime Minister in gaza as he brings a message of reconciliation and the British Government launches a massive operation to repatriate tens of thousands of passengers stranded by the collapse of Monarch Airlines. Well lets start the program by taking a live to last vegas where city officials are giving a News Conference on the investigation into sundays mass shooting lets listen in right good afternoon everyone im obviously sure from bartow clark county. This will be our fourth Media Briefing since the incident took place yesterday evening. Im going to give you just a short synopsis of our updates and then we have other individuals here standing behind me theyre going to make some comments reference or other issues associated with the to