so deploying the bradleys to help reinforce the sdf was a demonstration of that. to show that, unannounced, we can flex our capability around to just reinforce the point that even though we may lack numbers, we still have the ability and the commitment to get after that defeat daesh piece. as far as the russians are concerned out here, we don't coordinate with them, we do deconflict our activities in both time and space. and i think it is reflective of the wider number of nation states that are involved out here, each of those would seem to be in competition for influence, but from our perspective, particularly northeast syria, the focus is alongside the sdf and focus very much on that daesh to make sure they don't research particularly in areas like euphrates river valley. >> yeah. >> at the risk of getting in trouble, let me take you to utopia and you can have your, you know, christmas list of things you want. what other capabilities would you love to have that can really aid your mission, recognizing that size is not most important right at this point. especial

so we decided to send sdf medical assistance teams on a disaster relief mission, as early as today. >> about ten nurses will be dispatched to two hospitals dealing with cluster infections. the mission is expected to last for around two weeks. defense ministry officials are also preparing to send nurses to a medical facility in osaka that's focused on serious covid-19 cases. now, this is the fourth time for sdf members to be sent to provide medical assistance over the pandemic. sdf doctors and nurses helped take samples of passengers fm the "diamond princess" cruise ship to conduct pcr tests. another cruise ship was in nagasaki, helping with medical systems in okinawa. 167,000 people have been infected in japan since the pandemic began. over 2,400 people have died. >>> it's been a year since chinese officials confirmed the first case of what is now known as covid-19. since then, the virus spread across the globe, killing over 1.5 million people and infecting more than 67 million. countries deployed a variety of measures to reign in the pandemic, but officials are reimposes restrictions

what's the capacity of the sdf to really sustain it? over to you. >> that's a fair question. i can't answer for some of the institutions that are outside of the area that we operate in. certainly the essay, those detainees camps that are administered so well -- is we are very alive to any potential of breakdown. there could've been numerous attempts that happened over the months. but we're used to the divestment of equipment as part of our campaign, is to provide non lethal apparatus to govern the detention center. as well as cctv cameras. and to upgrade the sanitation, the security within it as well. this way they could feel more comfortable and confident in dealing with. that there are numerous areas where the coalition has created infrastructure projects to also aid that. for example, the husk a person is having a extension that's funded by a coalition that will allow the detainees to be counted into areas that would allow them to sort of spread out, and allows easier access by sdf. we've enhanced the women's prison. they can have their extended families with them. maybe f

this is the fourth time for sdf members to be sent to provide assistance over the pandemic.df doctors and nurses helped take samples of passengers from the "diamond princess" cruise ship to conduct tests. authorities confirmed more than 2,100 new cases across japan on tuesday. a record 47 deaths were reported. 536 people are currently in serious condition, also a record high. >>> japan's government is drafting its budget for the next financial year and, of course, fighting covid is at the heart of its plan. it also wants to shift to a greener and more digital society. monitoring risk is a key focus as it casts a shadow over the economy. e government wants a strike balance between anti-infection steps and social and economic activity. it's pushing to ramp up digitalization to stoke national growth, while working on becoming a carbon free country. it wants cycle where both productivity and wages continue rising. it will finish the draft budget later this month. the next fiscal year starts in april. >>> unicef is urging countries to get children back into the classrooms. it say

he is also asking for sdf nurses to be sent in for reinforcement. hospital in hokkaido investigated how 16 people, including patients and nurses, became infected. the hospital says the cluster appears to have started with a patient who tested negative in a pcr test on admission. the patient was hospitalized with a different disease in late october and was discharged two days later. about ten days later, two nurses who looked after the patient reported fever and upset stomach and tested positive for the virus. >> translator: we must assume that every patient may have contracted the virus the day before taking a pcr test. and we should treat our patients on the assumption that they may show covid-19 symptoms anytime until about two weeks after contracting the virus. >> a clustered infection on a remote island is pushing medical workers in southern hokkaido to the brink. 53 people or about 2% of the population of okushiri island have been infected. many of the infected people were sent to a hospital in the town of esoshi on the main island of hokkaido,

, japan sdf would help preserve peace inhe region. >> next to you, dan, from luckia from the uighurs human rights project and dan applies the ter to china, what ishina's near abroad and what role has itplayed in the ccp's term to a police state form of governance? >> well, tha you. go back to often overlooked fact that china is a continental empire. still sitng on the lands conquered by the hing and still rung parts of theongolia, ruling or tibet, we i the united states, to hr's points in his book and elsewhere about strate narcissism and we look at the one coast that it has, attempts to get out into the pacific ocean,he indian ocean, the south china sea, create maritime force and able to do that b if you're sitting in -- in central asia, to a certain extent russia, india, you're very much looking at china as a continental power. the term near -- theerm near abroad and you're right to do so because there's a l of both paramilitary fce. when itomes to near broad, the first strategy and the first desire of china when it came to tuing to central aa after the soviet fell was to put down