in the democratic republic of congo as the civilian death toll rises in school boxing legend manny pacquiao are open to the 30th southeast asian games in manila. odd. the philippine capital has a spectacular opening ceremony watch for thousands of athletes and fans there is details on those pictures coming up later in the program. and. rock's prime minister has no officially hands it in his resignation to parliament but that stun little to come protesters across the country who are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system now as he says he has done everything in his power to meet their demands but his pledge to quit has create only created more political uncertainty now he's held a meeting with his cabinet and asked parliament to debate his face at nation possibly on sunday but there were more chaotic rallies on saturday with many protestors voting not to give up until there is real change more than 400 people have been killed since october and their fight for jobs and an end to corruption violent crackdown by security forces appears to be fueling further anger and unrest well

in sport boxing legend manny pacquiao opens the 30th southeast asian games in manila. philippines capital shares a spectacular opening ceremony watched parts thousands of athletes and fans various details coming up later in the program. but the rocks prime minister may have offered to resign but that stung little to come protesters across the country who are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system. he says he's done everything in his power. words to meet their demands but his pledge to quit says only creates it more political uncertainty and he's held a meeting with his cabinet sand parliament to debate his resignation possibly as early as sunday but there were more chaotic rallies on saturday with many protesters vowing not to give up until there is real change now more than 400 people have been killed since october and their fight for jobs and an end to corruption the violent crackdown by supreme security forces appears to be fueling further anger and on rest well let's get more now from our correspondent simona 14 she joins us live from baghdad simona

boxing legend manny pacquiao played a starring role in the opening ceremony more than 5000 athletes areset to compete in the next 2 weeks i want this ceremony went off without a hitch organizes the face build up to the event being with allegations of financial corruption unfinished stadiums and poor treatment of visiting athletes where they carry the 1st held in $159.00 that's event was hosted by thailand and included just 6 countries very different now 11 nations now taking part in they are brunei cambodia indonesia laos malaysia the philippines singapore thailand east timor and vietnam this edition the most ambitious yet featuring a record 56 sports sports just one of the events making their debut one about it but one of the more i came here to support our athletes and also our country the philippines will show that the unity of filipinos can help support our team i hope the southeast asian games will be successful we say we will as want because all of us are winners longlived the philippines lewis hamilton a scorched a pole position for formula one season ending abu dhabi grand prix