duterte has long attempted to shut down the rappler which has published groundbreaking work on duterte'sdly war on drugs that has killed thousands of people. duterte e has repeatedly descrcd the site as fake news. newss outlet. a fake your articlesised are also fake. amy: duterte has also called reporters who ask him tough questions spies and warned that "just because you're a journalist you are not exempted from assassination." while duterte's government has ,ttended to silence rappler journalismasas beepraiaise around theorld. reressa s rerecely hononed as one of time magazine's s "perns of the year" in 2018 and has been named one of time's 100 most influential people of 2019. she also won the 2018 tully free speech award at the newhouse school at syracuse university. we are joined now by maria ressa. congratulations on everything you have accomplished. i'm not going as a congratulations for going to jail, though it might be a badge of honor because, clearly, what duterte is doing is attacking you for representing the press in the philippines. and talk about why he put you in jail twic

the resolution supporting house 233 condemning president duterte's drug war. our filipino community are concentrated in district 11 and 6. they're being affected every day now by the drug war in the philippines. family members and friends of community members in san francisco have been killed in the drug war so we're happy supervisor haney introduced the resolution with co-sponsors fewer, mar, mandelman, peskin and president yee. and we just came back from washington, d.c. and we're happy the city of san francisco's stand and the first to step up and opefully other cities -- hopefully other cities will turn the tide on the administration. there's a forum tonight night and we invite to you come and hear from two speakers from the philippines from the labor union and from the alliance of community philippines will be here and we invite you to come together and others will speak. >> i'm the pastor at bethany united methodist church. i want to thank you for your resolution to call for the congressional hearing for the human rights violations in the philippines. i

are underfire for ressa but other media outlets are under fire for criticising president rodrigo dutertet against extrajudicial killings. what we've seenin extrajudicial killings. what we've seen in the last three years, thousands of people killed, extrajudicial claims. that they haven't been given due process. putting drugs next to them to appear that they were committing a crime. these are allegations, the police say they were always fighting back. rappler have been very fierce in exploring this war on drugs and doing investigations about it and that has irked rodrigo duterte. he called rappler a fake news outlet in the past before he became president. he said journalists if they got a story wrong deserved to die. we have seen under his watch, there has been a lot of fire againstjournalists including myself, supporters of the president, very critical on line. so this trial today is being seen as a trial of freedom of expression here in this country. thank you very much for joining in this country. thank you very much forjoining us and for the date, howard johnson. it began as a sit in

ressa is the founder of the independent news site rappler and a vocal critic of president duterte. she spoke to reporters just after her not guilty plea. >> i still say these cases are all politically motivated. i mean, where in the world you come home on a friday, get arrested, post bail, and on a monday get another arrest warrant and post them again? i had been arrested twice and a little over a month. will fightear but we every single one and hope for the integrity of the men and women who will handle these cases. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. nermeen: and i'm nermeen shaikh. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. we begin in turkey, where president erdogan's ak party suffered major setbacks in local elections this weekend after dominating the country's political system since 2003. the ak party lost control in both of turkey's largest cities, istanbul and ankara, and is now disputing the results. voteters expressed frustraration with

is politically motivated and that it is critical coverage of rodrigo acro one and rappler always dutertepler always state this is an attack on the freedom of speech stop however, if you take a look at past cases, rappler and maria ressa are the only ones being charged for cyber libel while other agencies and other organisations have not. so what is happening here? what we see here is the government saying this is just a private case. there were allegations that he was involved in drugs and human trafficking, allegations that he had connections with the supreme court chiefjustice at the time he was undergoing an impeachment trial against him. what we say on the other side is rappler saying this is being used to harpoon them and that this is part of the other 11 cases as well about tax evasion and foreign ownership as a way of trying to silence journalists in this country. we must remember that rappler have been critical on the war of drugs rappler have been critical on the warof drugs — rappler have been critical on the war of drugs — make of the war on drugs where we have seen thousands

he's had some outs with duterte.n it comes to putin, not a word of criticism of vladimir putin has ever, to my knowledge, escaped our president's usually open lips. >> hmm. >> you know, so that's one thing. but the other thing that i think many people are missing is how successful trump has been on his own terms. this is a man who has managed to not only, in a few short years, degrade the presidency, to render it in a degenerate state, and i use that word specifically, a degenerate state, but also, he's done such harm to the body politic, such harm to our society, that on any given day, on any given day, and yesterday was one given day, more than 40% of americans believe that anything donald trump does is excusable, is okay. this is a low point for our country and our society and for our sense of ethics to the extent we still have a sense of ethics. >> in terms of justice and our system, i'm wondering, are you concerned about the attorney general, about his approach to this, and certainly, even, the statements he mad

philippine president, rodrigo duterte, says he's ready to declare war on canada.nes say the containers were full of worthless rubbish from street bins and president duterte wants to send the rubbish back to where it came from. here he is. the canadian embassy in manila said in a statement quote that it was "strongly committed to collaborating with the government of the philippines to resolve this issue." the philippines has been fighting this for years. this image is from 2015 where locals rallied in manila demanding that canada take the rubbish back. the issue of what to do with global waste has become a growing problem and, for years, developed countries have shipped recyclable waste overseas for processing. the world bank estimates that more than two—billion tonnes of solid waste is produced globally each year and that's predicted to increase to 3.4 billion metric tonnes by 2050. here's howard johnson in manila. this rubbish came from canada to the philippines, it was labelled as process for recyclability open the containers, it was full of household rubbish th

and has written pretty critically about president duterte and his civil rights, human rights abuses there. and in return for that, she finds herself now facing five criminal charges for tax evasion, that could lead up to ten years in jail. when i spoke to her recently, should he had to get permission from two separate judges in the philippines to actually travel outside of the country. but for all of that, maria said she was optimistic. but a few other journalists including jamal khashoggi, the "washington post" writer who as best we can tell was murdered by the saudi government, one of time's people of the year, you can see the cover here, and maria felt that her raised profile would help keep her safe. she had been speaking with facebook. she was optimistic that they had hired smart people and were serious about getting some of the abuses that were taking place on their platform under control. and i said to her, after all of that, after all of the abuses, after everything, after the mobilization of the duterte thug, the prop gan da that happened on facebook was she sure that she was opt

the paper says president duterte has threatened to declare war on canada if they didn't take the wastea morning post is focusing on the ongoing us—china trade war. with talks set to restart, the paper predicts that although some trade deals may be made there will be plenty more battles to come. and as we've been hearing from mariko, the international eddition of the japan times is focusing on the last day of emperor akihito's reign. they've picked this image of the emperor kneeling with evacuees after a volcano eruption in 1991 as one of the defining images of the emperor's reign. let's get more now on the leader of the so called islamic state group, abu bakr al—baghdadi, who has has re—appeared on camera. he was last seen in 2014 when the is militants had captured large swathes of territory in iraq and syria. in a video he vows to seek revenge following the fall of the caliphate. earlier we heard from mia bloom, a professor at georgia state university who has been researching is propaganda for a number of years. the video is clearly intended to boost the morale of the isis supporters

philippine president rodrigo duterte is warning he will declare a revolutionary government and arrest his detractors if he is pushed against the wall. known for his expletive laden speeches, he has been especially sensitive to criticism of his crackdown on illegal drugs and which has left more than 5000 people dead in clashes. his threat during a speech drew concern for advocates for democracy and human rights. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. >> live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm vonnie quinn. amanda: live in toronto, i'm amanda lang. welcome to "bloomberg markets." here are the top stories we are following. u.s. hiring rebounded more than forecast in march, relieving some concerns after a week february. how will the federal reserve read the data? the ceo of td bank tells us why he is bracing for tough times ahead. and venezuela in crisis. ricardo hausman, governor for venezuela to the inter-american development bank joins us.

president rodrigo duterte just told trudeau he has one week to stop sending garbage to the philippiness war literally. >> i will give you may be until next week. to pull this thing out. or i will declare war on them. >> tucker: okay, this could turn out to be a war. the great garbage were of 2019. how will it end up? stephen joins us, thank you very much for coming on. >> glad to be with you. >> tucker: make the obvious point, justin trudeau a little sensitive, justin trudeau is sending garbage to the philippines. how racist is that out? >> steven: i don't think it's racist at all. we send garbage to michigan all the time and have for years and years. >> steven: i don't think that it's racist to michigan but obviously somebody in the philippines said and they were receiving it, we will take this garbage. you will pay us to take it and now they are doing so. >> tucker: just to clarify, the united states if we don't like something we call it racist. it doesn't have to be racist but that is how we talk now. >> steven: well, tucker -- at tucker we aren't worried at all about work because w

featuring filipino journalist who was recently arrested by the government of filipino strongmen rodrigo duterte. maria was released from jail and has a timely message about the importance of press freedom around the world. >> good morning, i'm maria. thank you so much for listening to our story. we know journalists are under attack globally and the attacks are coming, enabled by technology, through social media, bottom up. a lie told a million times is the truth. with topsandwiches us down statements by authoritarian style leaders attacking not just our work, but us. we have seen armies rolling back democracy around the world. i've been a journalist more than 30 years and never seen a year like 2018. in a little more than 14 months, the filipino government filed 11 cases against me. i've posted bail eight times and still didn't arrested twice, detained once, all of this to try to intimidate us to silence. how do we fight back? with the facts. with data. that gives us the grounding to be able to push back and demand our rights. the world press freedom index is a global thermometer how do we -- t

founder of a site called rattler in the philippines, and has written pretty critically about president duterte and his civil rights, human rights abuses there. in return for that, she finds herself now facing five criminal charges for tax evasion that could lead to up to 10 years in jail. when i spoke to her recently, she had to get permission from two separate judges in the philippines to travel outside of the country. maria said she, was optimistic. with a few other journalists, including jamal khashoggi, the washington post writer who, as far as we could tell, was murdered by the saudi government, she was named one of time's people of the year. maria felt her raise profile would help keep her safe. she was speaking with facebook, she was optimistic they had hired mark people and were serious about getting some of the abuses that were taking place on their platform under control, and i said to her, after all of the abuses, after everything, the mobilization of dutere's thugs, the propaganda on facebook, was she sure that she was optimistic about the future? yes, she was. -- inalso the contac

philippine president rodrigo duterte a now demanding that they take it back within a week and says he declare war in canada. north korean leader kim jong un arriving in russia to meet with president vladimir putin for the first time. the two are expected to discuss the international stand-up surrounding north korea's nuclear program. -- should get no more than one hour of screen time per day. critics of that guy didn't say fails to take into account the content of the media. president trump agreeing with congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez for her take on the veterans affairs administration but there's a lot more to the story. what's really going on? ahead of the v.a. , secretary robert wilkie, is here to respond next. ♪ it is such a good time to [ laughing ] ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo [ goose honking ] ♪ [ laughing ] a bad day on the road still beats a good one off it. ♪ progressive helps keep you out there. (male announcer) for the love of mud, gravel, and trail dust. for the love of farm roads, dirt roads, and no roads. for the love of hunting, fishing, and workin

has tried to curb china's aggression there and duterte recently threatened a suicide mission against forces which were spotted near that island. experts say putin is eager to exploit these tensions for his own gain and eager to drive a wedge between the u.s. and its ally. >> his arrival in the philippines with these three navy vessels is to reminding the united states that russia is a global power. can he separate the philippines from the united states in any way? can he be a disruptor? >> cnn has reached out but so far no response from the white house or the pentagon to the russian ships' deployment in the philippines. how can america kourngt this effort by putin to divide america from its allies in asia? the u.s. has to stay its course, keep holding joint military exercises with its allies, keep engaging with countries like the philippines, malaysia, vietnam, indonesia, make them realize america is the friend they want to have in that region and not vladimir putin. >>> coming up, the breaking news that president trump fires the secret service director after ousting homeland securit

more now from ktvu's rodrigo duterte. >> reporter: after lifting a -- rod malcomb. >> reporter: buyingling magazines with more than ten bullets is once again illegal. >> what is the difference if it is a ten round magazine or six round cylinder? it is only four rounds. what difference does that make? >> reporter: a card carrying member of the nra, vince burns, was trying to make sense of the ban when he visited his local gun store. >> reporter: the ag is working to keep the ban in place. >> it is clear that there are those who are now trying to flood the state of california with what were, until this decision, illegal, high capacity magazines, the type of magazines that are used in firearms to commit the mass shootings that we have seen throughout this country. >> reporter: just days ago a magazine with ten or more bullets was legal and gun store owners were enjoying a booming business selling inventory. >> when my shipment got here i had about 20 people standing in the store. >> when i was ordering it they were going to send me the 17 round clips and i was informed it had to be 10 bec