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the i british manager. welcome to the the news aisha good. you can join us. japan is all being itself like it never has before. the defense ministry has now us put a nearly 20 percent budget increase this year to finance the acquisition of warships and long range crews. besides, if approved, it will be the 2nd straight of the new 5 year military build up plan that was approved in december last year. the request to increase the defense budget as part of that plan came a day off to japan, stop uniformed officer general yoshi he to. you'll see the board that the big liquid state of the country's self defense forces had put its very sovereignty in jeopardy in an interview to the new k issue, a newspaper he said, and i quote, we cannot maintain japan security without coverage capabilities. the domestic

community is a critical juncture on whether it can prevent unilateral changes in the state as go by force and maintain an international order based on the rule of law. japan is on the front lines of this fight in the in the pacific. and he's thought wrong, so stopped as not 3. yeah. has always been a threat to the island nation. and in recent years, under kim john, one that fred has only increased a now nearly monthly danger comes from the numerous nissan launches from north korea. besides which landominium occasions in waters around japan, it is one of the reasons why the defense industry wants the funds to build 2 warships, which will have the reductive ability to intercept north korean nissan launches. and then varies the historical spread from china, both nations after the tone disputes as well. that's i've seen the ships from both

countries, fazel in recent years. the water ukraine has added a new dimension to this trip in the form of the no limits partnership between china and russia. the movies of both nations have since lost the conduct of numerous joint patrols. andrews in the seas around japan. and genuine off a more social security expert, meet you to, to woke up from japan's k or university professor. as we woke up, it's a dining assessment from general. you'll see the, the as the f gone, protect japan of the moment. why is that all? it's not secret enough to college posters is not enough. so when we're not enough and security structures, you're not defend pregnant if a kid upset by themselves, dr. based on the series of simulations that now it is clear that the current safety principle supposed to is not enough. so they didn't even know she does. the comment is very much in line with what 5 minutes the kid upset fucking enough to send back

on. that is why? because the, the cards posted is not enough. we need to have a bigger projects on the that's going to have what are the prior to area that japan is looking to upgrade? the as the in i dave dave. the government is now focusing on the part and what is called come to take is of the day which is about acquiring the, the cruise, me thoughts. so it'd be because the for a long time, japan didn't have any type of so the, this is a new development. and this is very much based on the fact that the both work over here and had been strengthening, improving their case. do you have, besides, the deposit finally realizes that it needs to respond? and how much of this a change in force posture and these new weapons that japan wants to acquire,

are informed by the off to the effects of the ukraine wall of the general public support for the idea of increasing defense budget. i think uh, to some extent, typing influenced by the voice upgrade and also the rising tensions over time on. so there are various actors behind increasing public support for, for, for bigger defense budget. but the department is, has been facing nissan for north korea, for many years. so the, so not, this is a new company position that we need to respond. so the former 6 foot part perspective, the government decision to text and different spot. there was somehow very late, i would just say too late, but never too late to let's do the job. i should have done more much,

much earlier. that's uh, that's my view. as you're talking about increasing public support for this increase defense other than increased acquisitions from the s d f. yet having said that, the s t f is facing a problem when it comes to recruitment. for instance, not many people want to join the is to have to be sold, as is another case as well. exactly that, that is the idea of the biggest problem is that the assistance forces are facing because building new and more vessels on the buying more craft, i think is the easy part. but the recruiting people and also training that is a more difficult part. and so, so we can do because of a bigger defense bus, we can buy more equipment, but so how we can do that is going to be a i think the biggest challenge instead of just insurance was good job. i do want to talk to about the japan security part of the united states because the general, your, she during his interview set up in japan needs to do more on its own when it comes

to this alliance with the united states. does japan not think that the us is a reliable ally, the to japan and really test americans and trust the nice was denied of states. so the we are generally confident about the credibility of the us security guarantee and security commitments. but, but at the same time, the reasonableness of power is changing. so the, at least in relative terms, the call to us is declining in the region, particularly because of the china. so that is why if i need to do more and also at the same time, the strengthening of data and honest with united states is a, is of the defined importance. but at the same time, the, we need to probably other layers for our security and defense as a, and that is

a deep did very much about strengthening and expanding our strategic partnerships. so that includes relation to useless, radiate reactions, indian relations, nato. and you'd be a mattress. and speaking of those, a alliances that are alliances of japan has an exercise in the country like australia and india. how important are those domestic relations to postpone the school operations these australia or didn't do it or any other partners? i'm not supposed to retrace the and i switched united states because their last visit in either states remain essential for japan. security on the 1st, there's no doubt about that. but at the same time, the what we need to do for me is to co operate small on to the different needs to be prepared more ways co offered thing was i saw the teacher, he was really a u. k and other countries. so that is to complement what so once we hop is the

united states, we leave it there with the timing, but thank you so much for joining us today. professor meet you talk to rocha. thank . thank you much. both front. so this is no stranger to a sure he's visited south korea, japan. i'm the philippines. i'm having a huge events for the faithful there. today he began to visit too long ago. yeah. a country with one of the newest and smallest catholic congregations in the world. the pope was by come to the men golden capital, were not the tar over the next 4 days to be meeting and handing prayers for the around $1500.00, practicing catholics in the country. it also talks with mom, go to lead is the center piece of the pope's visit? would it be a mass on sunday at frontier says don't bid for visiting places where catholics, auto minority. it's bought, if it's policy, to draw attention to people and problems on what he calls the paraphrase of society

and the world. and mongolia as catholic, faithful certainly fits that description. mongolia, a country known for its foss, bips, nomadic people, and as the birthplace of guy, he's gone. awesome, i'm going to have 2300000 people most practiced to put this in. but there's also a tiny got kind of community with less than 2000 fund of us. now this might not or d as in the spotlight with the visit of the church, but it's really to book francis. it's the 1st time upon defence ever job of dom and goes yeah, one of the words newest congregations the proper. this is wonderful. the poop front says, visiting a country not known to the world for that skepticism when he visits us of those well known. but it's been 30 years since the religion came to mongolia and be

spanish. the catholic church was officially sanctioned in 1992 optimum goal. yeah. and it's so rich like municipal government and they're not freedom of religion and its constitution. the country now has 6 churches and a bishop in the system. the catholics is such a joyous, unhappy occasion by a quote that however, the catholic religion is not well understood here and even christianity. because as many denominations can be misinterpreted, i'm just now it's my cell phone book, francis the visit is also being seen as strategic during his for the speech. he would spend the day meeting politically to conversations that good for the right dickens interest with mcgraw's yes to china, near bus russia in china. and like many other countries, we have only 2 neighbors the most. they are the superpowers. and we have also

frontier relations with other countries call. we call them the 3rd neighbors. ok. that virtually 3rd and their risk. and it's important that these head of state, so far 3rd neighbors are coming to mongolia, including the one and including this one. and that's why i think it will be another, a serious step forward for the world to understand mongolia i'm, i'm going foreign policy is seeking a dialogue between the west inertia to find a way out of war and you clean and in china to back to can is trying to improve the situation of catholics and can involve river. it may also signal on but doors potential guys as an intermediary between china and russia. i do apologize as far from the minds of my goal. yes. got to looks. we're getting a once in

a lifetime johns to see the pool in the home country. and that does it for this week. there's often the region on our website, d, w dot com, forward slash aisha, and as ever you can phone us on facebook and treat tennis file. and we'll talk again on monday with you. then, by the way, we noticed he was diagnosed with a telling be he refused to be held back in his vote, costs to tackle issues the 2 young african shy away from asking difficult questions

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