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I'm michael holmes, coming to you live from the cnn center? atlanta. breaking news out of japan, former prime minister shinzo abe has been rushed to hospital, after being shot according to japan's broadcaster nhk. this happened as he was giving a speech in western japan. for those just catching up on things, let's start with what we know happened. >> japanese public broadcaster nhk is reporting that former japanese prime minister shinzo abe house shot twice in the chest while delivering a speech at 12:30 local time. abe was rushed to the hospital, bleeding from his chest in a state of cardiac ...

Because it's had a series of prime ministers, and if it was an interim prime minister, you'd be facing a situation with the fourth or fifth leader, as 2016, which once again, is not what people want to see right now when they want a time of stability. >> gillian, thank you so much for joining us for helping covering the breaking news, and for your expertise on boris johnson, who many moons ago, you were a fellow journalist with in brussels. >> you never know what journalist will end up doing. thank you. >> you never know. and again, we are still following the breaking news tonight, japanese br...

Out very slowly. we've been trying to contact the former prime minister's p.r. people, his office, to try to find some details. we've tried to contact the police there in nara as well. very few details at this point. just a lot of what we're seeing play out from nhk, japan's national public broadcaster, as well as on social media where you're starting to see some clips, videos start to populate. so very much, again, a fluid situation. we're learning more by the minute and, again, trying to get a grasp on exactly what happened and the condition of japan's longest-serving prime minister. >> blak...

Western japan. nhk reporting that abe was rushed to a hospital bleeding from his chest and in a state of cardio pulmonary arrest, essentially meaning his heart wasn't beating. witnesses say abe was shot from behind. he didn't collapse after the first shot but did after the second shot. people were conducting at that point cpr. witnesses on the scene say that the suspect didn't even attempt to run. he just got arrested on the spot. several police officers on-site were able to take that suspect into custody. he's now being questioned as we speak. nhk, again, at this point reporting that two guns...

That -- that the security environment surrounding japan right now is the worst it's been since shortly after the end of world war ii, and so in order to protect itself, looking at what's happened with the united states withdrawal from afghanistan and the concern that even though there's a security pact between the two nations, that the united states would come to japan's defense if japan was attacked, there's a concern that that might not be the case and the fact that japan needs to take its own security into its own hands and i think that prime minister abe was a big advocate of that. >> and ...