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Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unhurt after a suspect threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb at an outdoor speech in western Japan on Saturday, domestic media reported.
This developing story. cnn's mark stewart joins us now from tokyo with more what else have you been able to learn, mark? hi there, leila. since we talked last hour, we have now learned the suspect is a 24 year old man who is from an area about 3.5 hours from where this whole scare took place. and scare is inappropriate word. if you look at the video, you can see there was lots of panic. let me walk through what happened. basically at around noon today, the prime minister was set to give a speech in this sport city when suddenly, people in the crowd saw some type of silver object they describe ...
Training and the rules that you operate under and to proactively make a decision to break the law in the days before his arrest court document see to share a used his government computer. to search classified intelligence reporting for the word leak on attempt to find out if investigators were onto him after to share his first court appearance on friday. he'll have a detention hearing on wednesday . this whole legal process. it seems moving forward very quickly, about a week from when president joe biden, defense secretary lloyd austin and others first learned about the leaks to the arrest and...
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Tackled him to the ground and then remove him from the scene. there was a lot of chaos if you will as people are scurrying around so that is the video that we are seeing on our monitors from nhk, we will try to get that verified and we're still getting a more information coming in also from witnesses, but the video, i will let you know, we are seeing man, part of the security detail, man covered in white uniforms, these very likely could be there on the screens, and we will try to bring this video in, i am understanding right now we will bring it up for you right now if we can so you can see w...