the everyday life, so maybe we all because like instead of doing the, basically the news coming up today, a nobel prize winner wins of fights and called us our profit is not yet over reductive genres whatever. so who has just been acquitted on tax evasion charges in the philippines? she tells deed up no, that's an organization stuff. despite its ongoing legal challenges, the big one still hanging over our heads is the court of appeals that the se decision that have good essentially shot traveler down at any time. so we continue to do our jobs, but it seems that we're fighting for our lives. and later in the program,

the rebuilding of the deputies floods in foxes, the local in g o is reconstructing people's homes using climate friendly materials . the hope is these houses in which time for new floods, calamity, the liability expanded. you're welcome to the the news a shot. glad you can join us. for the opinions gold has acquitted nobel peace prize winner maria ever saw in a funny tax fraud case file against her and the new site you founded roughly the rest of it was cleared on similar charges. 9 months ago, she has loan maintained that she and rep that were targeted for the critical reporting on former presidents on pico detector. rep. look closely followed. the tape is broken down on the legal drugs. that left house instead starts as divisive

60, at the end of last year, he was succeeded by said, man bone bone mock costs junior, who has framed himself as a national unit file up to the guys and joining us now for more of a mother in law is nobel prize laureate on rep to see you, maria rest. maria a very big day for you. how are you feeling? great. well, you know, nervous last night, but this morning my co founder and i were in the court and a relief. this is the 5th, the last of the 5 tax evasion charges that i faced along with rapper holdings. and now it's gone. it took a long time, nearly 5 years, but now we've proven our it since that we've been acquitted. and these were charges brought against you during the rodrigo detailed to regime. do you think you were essentially being targeted by the detect the government?

i have long stated, this is political harassment. an attempt to intimidate me and wrapped blur from doing our jobs. this journalist straight, when you create a climate of fear it's, it's, it goes beyond the chilling effect it became siberia, except we decided to push back and because we did, i had 8 arrest warrants within 3 months in 2019, by the end of 2019, i had 10, so out of those 10 criminal charges 8 are now gone and there are 2 left. one is the cyber libel case. that's now what the supreme court. the 2nd one is essentially been remanded back to the prosecutor and then the big one still hanging over our heads is the court of appeals the the s e c decision that could essentially shut rattler down at any time. so we continue to do our jobs, but it's the same that we're fighting for our lives. given the way these 5 tax evasion cases have gone on how you're going to create it and all of them are you hopeful that the other 2 cases that i left the online libraries curious if you are

fighting and then the closure order against rep law, that these would potentially also be displeased and maybe they may be ruled in your favor. as you know, i've learned that nothing is for sure until that happens. but i think what we've seen under this new administration is a far more, a greater respect for press freedom. we'd certainly been now allowed back into the palace. we've had cool duties. our reporters can report, which is actually a great thing. and then we've seen the chart of just go away. it's just been slow. it's drained our resources, but we can continue doing our jobs. i go, i suppose the short answer is really that, yes, i remain hopeful. it is still far from perfect. but rule of law justice seems closer at hand. you did call it a lifting of fear under the account of

a team of foot and knock us. do you really mean that the price is for you? i'm now in the philippines then under adrica to i think let's say that the bar was set so low that the media, the journalist were under such attack. like i said, it was beyond a chilling effect. we were under siberia, you had the largest television network in the philippines, a news room. i used to manage a 1000 journalist strong. last it's franchise. right? that's like bbc losing its franchise. and that's on thinkable, the last time that happened was in 1972 little raps, or we're only about a 100 journalist strong. you know, we've maintained, we continue the fight, the phrase, we use this, we hold the line for our rights and we're still here. and will continue doing our jobs. and this thing the last day you had said that a win for 59 macros. junior. what's more of this information? not just in the philippines, but across the world when it comes to elections. has that happen?

is there more of this information now in the philippines, for instance, it's different in the philippines today, right? the attacks against me you're online, are more strategic. they're distributed denial of service attacks that began around december 2021. and then there were toxic back links f e o driving news organizations down in search. but, you know, in terms of globally, we've certainly seen a rollback for news organizations all around the world, especially with the, with the rollout of general did a guy in november 2022 will more this information come out during elections. that's what we're starting to see. that's the fear in the elections that are critical in 2024, 2024. according to our data will really be a tipping point for democracy. you're going to have taiwan in january, indonesia, the world's largest muslim population. in february. you're going have perhaps british the u. k, will have canada perhaps, and then the you. and then of course,

the united states, if the patterns, if the trends don't change as they are given the, the kind of corruption of our information ecosystem. when lice spread faster than facts on social media, and now you have large language models generally the i not basically weaponized thing. it looks like our loneliness, well, we have no idea what to expect during these elections. elected going back to the philippines and fed them macros. julia is the kind of president of the philippines and advocate for press freedom. he says he is, and i hope he puts his words into action. what measures do you think need to be taken into philippines to ensure that the press can do the job properly and that democracy is actually served as well. we've certainly seen an improvement. you know, let me just talk from rattlers perspective. we went from being banned from the

palace, our reporter, in january 2018 along with, with myself. you know, i'm not even a reporter, but we were banned from the palace. and then every single reporter over after through 2018 was banned from anywhere near president detector. all of that changed when ferdinand marc klaus became president again, routes or had access. we were part of the pool at many times, being the pool reporter in the pool camera. and that's the 1st access was there. i think the 2nd thing though, is that you still have attacks against journalist. you still have journalists in prison front to make home feel is, was 23 years old. when i, when i gave the lecture the nobel lecture in oslo, she is still in prison. and of course you have the main person who is the sample of president detected the dialogue. he says, seen that sample on. she used a political example. this is sen laila, lima, former senator laila. lima will spend most of her, her term, a senator in jail. she is now in her 7th year starting her 7th year in prison. so

there's still a lot to be done. but is it better? and the last administration, not even a question where you live with the, for the time being tech, someone for joining us today. maria rizza the climate change induced flooding impact. hassan effected some 33000000 people across the country last year or more than 1700 people lost their lives in some 13000. we're in good schools, health centers and people's homes for washed away and the flooding. some parts of the country are still under water and heavy rains and the earlier part of this. yeah. added to the suffering. the in southern part is don, how about a local in general is hoping to make a change. it is helping people build the climate prison and homes using locally

source materials that are also climate friendly jump out and her family lost everything in the 2022 flats they were already struggling with. but with the in focus on southern sense, programs losing that much house meet them, dispute and homeless. 6 months ago, the family worked with a little bit in general to construct this new home. and mean that into the us was standing here of the same support to funding, but it was washed away by the floods. got it, forget me. it was all ruined and became debris paid. i'm the do free. a lot of gates were wrecked to the plastic. tend to take shelter. the more water gushed in that somebody took shelter in the room. but the, the, the house is a basic hot like structure made to be found strong light and clean the construction, but the environment, the least sustainable training program run by the n g o d,

just people how to build their own checked us. is that a mark i have made around $1000.00 houses so far with lots of people are coming to us saying that they would also want to have such houses who could build on this houses the construction material got for equivalent of $87.00. that's one thing for house meet with segment. mike and savings for poor people struggling to rebuild their lives. the devastating floods and then dated october to focused on destroying more than 2000000 homes. first of all, we have the samuel looking for the poor. it says got to affordable. secondly, we have to understand that whatever you brings loud side with or lose you, my family expensive and confident, you gotta make affordable housing at the end, you have had to construct $55000.00 houses for the items home was built before the

flats and was left standing from the many in the 80 got to copy its design i think that we left the village when the floods came, when we return, the house was still standing. but critics point out the guy i'm interested in the homes, are not expandable to urban areas. the violets may be very suitable for a completely looked at it, please. it is not necessarily very popular or visible in the video and audio sort of in a guess. the other disadvantages that, that sense it is a basic center. the further additions or multiplication of studies in this type of structure in the present form is not possible. focused on is one of the top 10 countries most affected by climate change, meaning it will be hit by more extreme, but the defense, the country has to read think it's repeating strategy and making climate tricity and homes could be to start and that does apply to that

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