the man arrested on suspicion of throwing a smoke bomb at japan s prime minister, fumio kishida, has been identified by the authorities as 24 year old ryuji kimura. there are no further details regarding possible motivation. mr kishida was about to give a speech in support of a local candidate of his ruling party the ldp. after the incident pm kishida made a speech in another location where he said the incident should not be allowed to disrupt the electoral process. 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
for bronchitis. /pheul /treu resistance against the hello and welcome to bbc world news. russia says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say 16 others have been injured in the incident. the city is the second largest in russia after the capital, moscow. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line and was a vocal supporter of russia s war in ukraine. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast, but in the last few minutes, the russian foreign ministry has paid tribute to victim. paid tribute to victims. sergei goryashko, a journalist at bbc russian, has been giving us the latest. we do know that among those who suffered in that blast in a cafe were 25 people, according to the local authorities. there are different leads about what actually caused the blasts. and according to one of them, he has been given a bust, a sculpture of himself, ac
we have fox news team coverage of some of the key races in battleground states. will be getting into that and just a second period two of the big stories we are filing for you but elon musk is wasting that s our time trying put a stamp on twitter. after finally closing that multibillion dollar deal buy the social media giants, we re learning more about that suspect accused of attacking speaker nancy pelosi s husband paul. inside their san francisco home yesterday and that is where we will begin. with more on this attack christina coleman live in san francisco live the pelosi home with the very latest on this investigation hey christina. hi erica. it is just awful. paul pelosi suffered a fractured skull in injury to his right arm. serious injuries to his hands. fortunately he is expected to make a full recovery pretty underwent a surgery yesterday. his family says it was successful. and house speaker nancy pelosi she arrived at san francisco general hospital last night to
over a million people are without power from texas to the east coast as bone chilling temperatures kick in. more than two hundred million americans are currently under warnings or advisories. this massive winter storm is causing holiday travel chaos. transportation secretary buda jen says it is going to be days before this gets sorted out. yesterday, about 10% of flights canceled. now, of course, that means 90% of flights were not canceled, but, you know, if it goes above two percent, we consider that a lot. so 10% means just a lot of disruption for a lot of passengers now getting back to normal. but we re seeing, again, over the middle of the country that extreme cold and then the east that that wind and snow coming. it s going to be rough for certainly the next couple of days. when it comes to aviation. so far , over twenty six thousand flights have been delayed and nearly 9000 canceled since wednesday. mike tobin is at o hare airport in chicago with the latest. hi, m