the ground ahead and missile strikes across ukraine leaving destruction and injured. we ll have a live report from kyiv. the funeral for japan s shinzo abe will be held next week. a wake is scheduled for monday with his memorial service set for the next day. a hearse carrying the former prime minister s body arrived at his tokyo home a few hours ago. hundreds of mourners lined the streets outside. just one day earlier abe was giving a campaign speech in western japan when he was shot at close range with a homemade gun by a man. police found several crude guns made from metal pipes and other materials. under japan s strict gun laws, it s very difficult for citizens to own guns. the dockers tried to say about abe but say his blood loss was just too great. he was the longest-serving figure and a world known figure on stage. blake is covering this for us. reporter: earlier the body of shinzo abe accompanied by his wife arrived back here at his home in tokyo located just down
arrangements. i can imagine so. blake essig live in tokyo for us. thank you so much. for more on us i m joined by a professor of management and information at the yun universi. thank you for being with us. i want to ask how is japan reacting to this loss? i think we re not even at a stage of trying to cope with this situation overall, but i would like to think, you know, there would be reaction particularly tomorrow when we have the upper house election coming up on sunday. you know, the voting ratio in japan has been extremely low, but i would like to think this would be a very good factor for people to go out there and vote because i do believe that, you know, voting is probably one of the best ways to sustain our democratic values and basically
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