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ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. campaigning for the presidential race has started in the philippines this week and the main candidates to replace outgoing president rodrigo . do tear take. include every one from a boxing legend to the son of the former dictator and declared his daughter is also running for vice president. it's going to be a wild election season. voters go to the polls on may, 9th, for 6 years from the last presidential election cycle, the 3 month long campaign season has arrived. the main event is that race for president and separately elected vice president. and while a world renowned boxer is in the mix, the guy drawing the crowds of a rock star is a politician, ferdinand marco's. if that name rings a bell,

it should. marco's is the sun and namesake of the philippines, former dictator who toppled a stable democratic government in 1972 and imposed martial law. ferdinand junior is known as bon bon, and fines. much support from younger people. born after ferdinand seniors dictatorship will not be known that there is no filipino who's not in need of help . which is why we all need to come together. standing at the side of ferdinand marco's junior, another big name and filipino politics, sarah, to charity a vice presidential candidate who is the daughter of the present president, often critical of her father, while backing marco's eye

stays on. oh, you are running a distant 2nd in the race for president is the current vice president, but also opposition leader lenny roberto, only female candidate for president after becoming one of rodrigo to tear tay staunchest critics. while now my young nothing can match our combined strength not being locked up. if by now let's go unwinnable. if winning on physical strength, mattered former boxer, many peca would be the clear front runner, a national sporting hero. he is much love for coming from humble beginnings, to rain as world champion before turning to politics to become a congressman then senator indian lab. unless it is not my fight alone. but the fight of every filipino or the philippine economy will be a focus in the campaign and economy. hit hard by the pandemic. corruption and

public office is another topic of interest, and china's military presence in the waters separating it and the philippines. but those issues may well take a backseat to personalities in the next 3 months and political dynasties. ah, joining us is manila based journalist j. c. good tenga, j. c. i want you to explain what might be difficult for many of us outside the country to understand the marcos name can possibly be a good association. are we missing something here? right. great question. melissa. you know it, oh, it has to be understood this way. you know, ever since the marquesas were out there from bower in 1986, they have not stopped trying to reinstate themselves. so this has been a long coming process of them trying to slowly find their way back into the

philippines scene 1st through their hometown of elope, a snored there in the north of the country, and then slowly back into national politics. now why the name suddenly seems to be, you know, not as pariah as it used to be. well, it's a mixture of number one. ah, the narrative has not been so well ingrained among filipinos asked. we might have expected that are the fact that on the friggin at marco senior, or the progenitor, the former dictator, oh, is the holster, guinness world record for the greatest robbery of a government in the world. ah, that's not very clear to me, filipinos apparently. and then the machinery of the mark process, especially with the help of social media, they have just see that their narrative at 1st suddenly but then now are very, very blatantly trying to whitewash their families reputation, putting into question fact such as the thousands of atrocities during the marquess regime in the 19 seventy's and eighty's,

as well as the fact that they still have billions of best worth of money from the government coffers that they have yet to return supposedly. that's fascinating. and then we have sarah do charity as the side kick to marcos junior, the daughter of rodrigo de, tear tate. what does she bring in all this? well, that the pair to me remains very popular indefinitely. what she brings to marco's is a sense of legitimacy. or if we recall in 2016 when mark was ran for vice president, he was running in tandem with miriam, defense, or santiago she has since passed away, but she's a very credible, very highly respected politician. and it was a surprise that she ran in partner with marcos, but there are many observers here say that it, if this help mark was very much in that it really, it changed many filipinos perception that in that or suddenly the mark was his

r. okay. may be the mark was weren't as bad as they were framed up to be also he did not help that in the postmark was years many politicians, many precedents turned out to be a disappointment. so that played into it as well. and can we back up a bit because i'm curious on do tear take has operated like such an autocrat? did he try to change the laws to hold on to power and it just didn't work out or what? because it's almost, it's surprising. there is a democratic process here. i think there were a lot of expectations. he tried to stay on. yes, he did. i'm in the earlier half of his term. he tried to initiate a change, an amendment to the constitution under the guise of, you know, improving the economic revisions. but mostly people were wary that it was to remove the term limits to allow himself to run for reelection. that did not work out because the senate found out the effort early on. ok, so now we see his daughter salad that there there are running for vice president.

she had been expected to run for president. but given the alliance with the mark was says, it didn't, it wouldn't have looked well if he or if she said that there they, and bumble margotto. marcus junior both ran for president. they might have divided the support based. ah, right, yes, i do. there. they did make attempts to try and stay longer. now we've been talking about the fascinating personalities. let's also talk about the issues. what do voters want? right, you know, it, filipinos, for many, many filipinos. it's really a matter of the survival, which is why concepts are just democracy and human rights and, and political freedoms often don't figure in their list of concerns when they had the vote for them it's about, you know, how to put food on the table. how can they make sure that if anyone in the family get sick, that they have the money, they have access to medicines and healthcare, which, for many filipinos, is a problem. there is,

the pandemic has shown that our health care system is nearly non existent and very, very well, it's not enough. so, oh, because it is always if this mostly a question of personal survival, it also makes it easier for people in power for politicians to, for the lack of a better term by their support from the masses. jessica tenga, thank you so much for joining us. as always. ah, afghans have been fleeing to pakistan for decades. around 1400000 refugees are registered there, but the unofficial number could be twice as high as a lot of afghan kids needing an education. but without the proper papers, most are denied access to pakistan school system. so across the country, community lead classes have been set up for afghan children. many schools were even recognized by afghanistan's education ministry. but all that changed with last year

as taliban takeover. now after years of schooling, afghan students are being left empty handed in karachi, the future of 18 year old m u hums are an offer on refugee hangs in the balance. although homes i was born in boxes, non, he cannot get enrolled in a school recognized by the boxes on the government. this meant completing his high school education in one of the schools run by the community theatre. malvina, one high school, located in the neighborhood of artist square in karachi, is one such place. the school is recognized by the ministry of education. on children come here to finish their studies homes. i had hoped to be one of them, but of long distance education system has been on the brink of collapse, on takeover. and full time being diplomats from you tomorrow,

the high school are no longer being issued. bringing a hold to holmes us, plan me good. waited from the school 2 months ago and to know i hadn't received my certificate without the certificate. i cannot get admitted into university. i mean, or admission if the uncertainty or upon itself, educational system and lack of international support. if career think generation of content with this crisis is unfolding even beyond the countries border here and focus on the future lines and writes to higher education, referee to children, remain in both like comes off. but seat of i the to is one such student with no job opportunities inside and to make she know, be just in the same since she studied it. i, i graduated from the school 4 months ago and i still don't have my diploma. since i

have a refugee card here, i can't do anything else. focused on home to an estimate, the 2800000 of on refugees. and while many were born here of 150 children, remain deprived of official recognition or citizenship. making it impossible for them to attend more schools and universities recognize, but the focus on the government, the government provides of one refugees with proof of registration gods. but human rights experts argue that more must be done to integrate the refugees. these refugee cards are not vitally acceptable in part time because you know that the institutions, especially need the private institution. they have their own policies and the higher education commission time to time. you know that on their policies, in regard to the foreign nationals or especially to the refugees. now with few citizen writes and boxed on and turmoil in the home country of con his bonds,

the lives of children like monsieur homes, remain suspended. and nobody knows how long that set for today. there is more from the region on our website, d, w dot com, ford slash asia. and always as usual, you can follow us on facebook and twitter. thanks for watching and see you tomorrow . oh no. me be in the pandemic. oh, 1st they had to mourn. countless debts. now the churches in southwest africa are encouraging people to get vaccinations against coven 19 by educating. they're fighting the spring of conspiracy theories, and they demand a fair distribution of vaccines across the global vaccines for africa. next on dw,

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